Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 add023153e5a0eae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 11:11:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8210603d980647258acc7dfe6d134104 SHA-1: 81ac1124dabc3a2cd7684b92a81b4088f900841a SHA-256: add023153e5a0eaeb87c02e83b008b14952dc269080f25271d8046c14398e76e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The heuristic firings indicate this is a link farm, likely intended to phish users or redirect them to malicious content. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985c09ad3ef---90986103381.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krq7ivkuh8jl2fpfh0lpuuqob4/64179783996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dffc5510e1baa35d5ae7a38ef120eb7/wetawukuboraruxuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/napur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb0320a572---59449292585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/mubefaxesazunonogedemesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210707111726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8d837d6280---77622131837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083301f9290f---zubivagebepipopoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c7718a084---27428313868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harrisonfamilyreunion.org/clients/868801/File/86676530014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lateonsettay-sachs.org/userfiles/file/perawifed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area5srl.it/file/34021874024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f0b86837bc9b30b554658d93d07fb4f/semadigadobev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/tobobidurebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b745388923---kugelalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8154a0fc41dfe520528d05d79543f9d0/jotezazesixik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/badea38856f94560f025e115b20b163b/segew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alteanetworks.fr/img/file/39842514892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieusangducphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/4947052071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/16169222993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ae33b46f9---54048020232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab210da0bc3---jajixopaxabujamaror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=10am+mst+is+what+time+estPDF 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_off000105f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F0 19652 bytes
SHA-256: f6a5f7831f9396988f4a4c3573c77e9b185215d9b5053a27fdaad4787187db80
font_01_sfnt_off0001396d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1396D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015184.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15184 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 08f08ded16e8eb034418333f48a6fc89fd2ea2ef21cd585d41f1e9f331da13ef