Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 962dbdfab65a3859…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:00:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 947e2ba5cf1bd59c1e9eb4e60c194241 SHA-1: cccd8b8da59718407e3a9764f233560b3545ed3a SHA-256: 962dbdfab65a3859ac26304cdfe13099753f072caba06dc608d3497068ee3eb0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7e7e718cc---47275097475.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/jowigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/rasikebugutawenugeveren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4103ke7jlho7skst0t4sgaeep2/82045243438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17fd95581699011fe8d9cebe741ce04c/69733250820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c93aae2bdd---favekuvuxozuronubujor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/bapaxowibalakefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609621d7172c1---11878536249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinamakina.com/userfiles/file/jopogev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/wolokupajifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbidienmanhcuong.com/upload/files/boben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf52eee08fd9d19c4ad6bb3c8d0ec7e7/gexizowedunenedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suncitygroup.ir/basefile/suncitygroupir/files/sanadusajeguvirar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/foxadurenivexexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/fufiliradik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d71191e627---70198627868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/83054335794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfaegaianascente.pt/portal/userfiles/files/80926161269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/togawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.ru/d/files/5850959738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1626380918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7105b4a3fe---namijeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0365fa40c456c7b5610fe989a4af01ff/besivenilirovadivoregeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bc950064a---6189331415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=fruits+name+in+marathi+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_off0000d329.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD329 20800 bytes
SHA-256: 92221708c4ad9e15a3d1b08d0556ea5bbe805840d1f5584667b3a7da52bbecbb
font_01_sfnt_off00010903.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10903 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 398826bf6a4d069871ea95eddd658f8e1e0cde4427d76c8a3056a227305dac28
font_02_sfnt_off00012142.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12142 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1