Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 946ade32bb924088…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:19:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0565393067dbfd8603788c4ad68d1177 SHA-1: 9742b958667ffe4672b1daa98fe7165ae4aa0c96 SHA-256: 946ade32bb924088297b9f130d5ad1abf244b198be56afc7e33fafc1849198d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm pointing to compromised websites. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which lead to potentially malicious content hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to these external resources, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4k5cpc5lau8u47ei5peo8hm35/munafololovaxinu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rowsontw.com/shopadmin/upload/files/95824314678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8373e63e88---71676086378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccphucvinh.com/upload/files/xalamugibonugek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/70490250593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doktor-ara.com/userfiles/files/79170512434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7b92b34c9e---vuvimiwoxepozeregefafuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/67895657423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfb32618e4814350e0c15e3d0e9bc3ef/dulipibugabipomoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/44759991560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/tixalezux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/37133678855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filatelianumismaticaumbra.it/userfiles/file/zaxizivojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkevuphong.com/uploads/image/files/36054738113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alanaf.ru/userfiles/files/gevavadipomujapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9061b8f742a7ae3f20726130ac6836f9/vejaxozomafod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fb895bd3d9d4288cc13abe70456a77f/mufimamepijewara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodegaadrover.com/userfiles//imagenes/41967912166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608268ab0ac6b---89624901090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6ea83ee806deaa4ab18326ba83c491d/98351837677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8e7717645d359d8c90f7f0c3d6fd4f6/buretilosubokolavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57qae3q43rkf8tpe90b1frg866/17931989091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a45e47decab460a22bce5c09c2f2f498/86942122205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5srt4ss6g9ik6tca1s4mcg75o3/93045023553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=contemporary+security+challenges+in+nigeria+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3BD 11312 bytes
SHA-256: eee2665debe35d4915bfd0b3236012d947334cb71080efd3bc7a8d227c729d14
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001160e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1160E 17596 bytes
SHA-256: ed8530f698113a5b49a8d1cbbd4c1c499bd638e0ecda4eea79d121aa9ec6dd83