Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 951d4d5178c4d5a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-27 10:38:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 65d2fa234e4bbd8906732f328fb44707 SHA-1: 1c444fceddf6f8cc319e11a447d3c8ef47ffe2d0 SHA-256: 951d4d5178c4d5a44abb03c0c1360ea3da65fe462b393f5b30b7f1cbc01f28ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ue4keva8j0r8ujid54agsgl61k/pakekupaka.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607463be6f391---vipofugusaxokagabolodur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8e660d776---38104015786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/zufajepuxulinokiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6eedc8d6f8---22713685876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akanaymatbaa.com/calisma2/files/uploads/laredobunez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pablohernandes.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbed6d181e80d604e929c55a264a129d/70693713244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846c4b69bd1---42854134705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b61c4d66ca9---xopiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/10107446227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d1ec666ca---jemaritalupadowitiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/taduxipupifal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qqhanoman.com/contents//files/jipedajatoradelakagafisog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/81479609535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/lejokazoravinunafoxopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j82umiblaks2og3sqbdt746a6r/40904894933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e46q4g6ujk74dc955ddv2gd316/budoloxolob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gojafewugiwawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a8e23b853---topapifevafurejalamobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/2827382341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f00bdf43afcffbe799716324f99817d/68792920251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93982f93a449293b58bc7c88a6df8870/sojenejajusejiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/tikumawabaluzegolawavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/katumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160964a56a3d61---42474391084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+barley+for+babiesPDF 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_off0000f633.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF633 16948 bytes
SHA-256: c5ce81bc2deb2db21315ce6b4431d8da1b00373a4a42838fbe79d02f5db789d4
font_01_sfnt_off00012213.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12213 10692 bytes
SHA-256: f37c703f448f19749a3171c44cd7829fc58f641ba6fe5d0faa34585144bb42f7
font_02_sfnt_off00013aa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1