Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 988017129d576dc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:31:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7a7d422621d15a4acd30591ab90de0e8 SHA-1: 93befa3c7bcdb33632f86f6d5c491e78a7dae91a SHA-256: 988017129d576dc1bd10777d2cb104d5e4a85b91328931fa506f8d8f2c2c5473
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to external websites. Several heuristics indicate that this PDF is a link farm, with some links hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a1013+datasheet+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.larche-de-jules.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruvem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2p14i979tets5j1348cer6pmlc/44567187316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c089d36b893---wulutudamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletroluz-al.com/_IMG/img_internas/file/vudatugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kedehg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/witofixepasemuvixadis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletroluz-al.com/_IMG/img_internas/file/87105768556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b9d3b4586---widamavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0ca284e5a---84506285539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118fbd122207---boverevububon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8feea583e---82840401207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lroundup.com/clients/d/d7/d7466da0ad72d96b64793f89c518a0d9/File/badoxafitekamewewajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/rukirotozavelal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bf15364d8701615b2bb6f5844078614/wojusekotobexumorojebano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7191e00a62b272c05963ae9802d74e61/55029702497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nh0ifmi5fo3a8a3nt55t190qs4/30463365876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1poea5mvhh7153t18u0qlpu4o/59614987845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/49678207399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c2b74d3c1d---29467359555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d7f9bacf1279a0e2b6773eac190c7d3/88255441680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cf7d2ca12---87277461770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygiftltd.com/userfiles/file/fadikususafizajolimolupan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/39875296267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personnelstrategies.net/userfiles/file/6788694085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nada70.org/userfiles/file/21935553279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9163681e97679a44797b5507660f6919/magajuluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dd70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD70 10460 bytes
SHA-256: d31fe8bea198d5404b4727232600f20524c39fa9fba34c0a1e308eb93fffb98b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f574.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF574 19484 bytes
SHA-256: b064922de3b44e03dc283066cf6bc345e893e97b7db00bf6dbdf30b168ef54e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1