Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ada7ac46516de0d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 07:08:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 498380b1a81db4ac257e678860e51e08 SHA-1: b10fffb66b654116bac5de26aa7a31b88cdaaca1 SHA-256: ada7ac46516de0d10ca94d08ef0aaf75958989f1f11c066e0aca257dbb685962
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.kcequipment.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4882efc12c2d5f35671e502ddfc33364/18370906730.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210608/2106081021323542244mme6uijcg59.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8c15ba8212f730a21d788e59da4449a/xosobugufinivip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd4e2603ab6814d9f4ae1fbd837623d1/10437932007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2ffb985d9---65190211269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q73fh9h69sc84t2ie10j6l7t1n/4423989245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caa5b7a3245bfd2ec0c71f105c108e48/22431550130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d4bba8fda---ratubadexewidekezitozufod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04l7qhh72s43d3p6nlker9sqm1/berawukavukepojol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076296eb7452---39073730296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/mexesotunutaramufuperix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74d1r013fnbohh3dhpatmvlij9/kedewaxafamogaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/15021178696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/pubitodajerur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28e303751db0fc70e66a257da578bae3/dujuvisuxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd0224b1164e79c3995b677250f8d313/41197329602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/7168269122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4big0dn249calii13kri6s5sf2/rawutovinijofeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feast.to/upd_file/96142970500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f7ac4d9b4---352502617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedikal-yub.com/uploads/file/fipiduzanujalavetulone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dp2df4d4etheotn2n3pf6pkglg/4099170117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d3a4ed9bc---femujubebumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/zoluvubepupaxolibunis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=upper+back+muscle+strain+treatmentPDF 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_off0000ec64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC64 10752 bytes
SHA-256: d7852b038b9d826f75d21801e503c7011b05f8ef67e7c4def88bbc8ba3bbe1a3
font_01_sfnt_off000104e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E2 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 66e40e1cedd29bc761e820d529bc7c3335661ebd9f8914a9a7eec781987dcdd2
font_02_sfnt_off0001312e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1312E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1