Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a233373a4bd0140c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-07-17 20:35:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: de1986782726152f37af9ce838c6ed5b SHA-1: a9b7a291f9e61d47ec5c5cf1209dc353457a2730 SHA-256: a233373a4bd0140c829dc4d9bafaac8c683e5f48f84833e4916ebfcc9ee435b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to delivering further malicious content or phishing for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a53b2ed02b6---falepoguzoregesugana.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5754ba895---65606997418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://privatecambodiatour.com/userfiles/file/kadumofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f85jpjkp7kb9svvrfhffustvj2/2924192984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/67586829445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c1fb68cff---64563860999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schnauzermountainminiatures.com/clients/17729/File/81562438253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082bd9ae7082---49010826935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/63916139988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3a827f62e---67819743292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5angv2ilnlpbk173s2ge4jmkq/10134603751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3opgme0cnpha7q4uil7munrupn/newavowezagituseki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de205a7eab2---54762870300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/sazikirelapisore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2777851733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f2b01658141fa51dd031cf7d088cd21/nozanivifef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodluckfishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51132110474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cg97a8mh7hsf6a07qkrgnqbbm5/xofig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-nails.pl/Upload/file/70531948379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/23818756513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/94130402099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/81889715045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0e531145ca58a2d36c6a41ed9913461/56752403707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/fokezutexupomidipujabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=reasons+for+pins+and+needles+in+hands+and+feetPDF 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_off00010d78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D78 17168 bytes
SHA-256: cd771c436b9d6d3c17871df166e87118205650f2d6ed39770d4b260b1953076a
font_01_sfnt_off00013a0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A0D 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 5ba35c1e28fb3bf9b7d367cb026b08d23082e172c4ade4513b021e221517984c
font_02_sfnt_off00015252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15252 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1