Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b144a6dd47fc1998…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.7 KB Created: 2021-07-23 17:43:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a7d30b436847fd597b864a715d172984 SHA-1: d663fb1cce8deddaa8fc12a1cc5b21b190c974e6 SHA-256: b144a6dd47fc19985bb0342626c70ab2b4748833a94a21914f347fe156307f2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attack. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific purpose beyond the presence of these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7669876b7ae0c98d8b9ec361c914d81/toruzupanewunudodo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nguyenquangcomputer.com/upload/ck/files/puwapofugajosox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160934738212be---fujibuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/63273610743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dg583uupevenrvgf8r12bdi6j2/35520730901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ac220ef5e---nowotupimilemozekebukogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/26494374069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3693d7458398f3cc6ad79588c04ea78/donunogukesunefelomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607afbd056451---39343822321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/61517262518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da541cbe48---pariwarorag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssteelelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/15673147234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a61140b30e---fenoxepeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee6b3cb7656---bavodipusojamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5993e20a57ad6f30d31c9c12a99e6215/kejisemew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866c9d49517---pomujukodanasiferebejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/84536632541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/bojesisojikizewogumekopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallawallahighschool1968.org/clients/75819/File/81347006626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/16092146507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/77722618147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609037549a54f---95824846909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/ramimivawikof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavlasin.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/enjhuqaa4e1mgct2c2dk90eh5c/13975196495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/wetobejazosagifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=netgear+n300+wifi+range+extender+troubleshootingPDF 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_off00015379.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15379 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016b8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B8B 24052 bytes
SHA-256: 478cc402085fc870f238f6e25492d400ea774fee0e393aebceb1581f20e17910
font_02_sfnt_off0001a7c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A7C6 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 3e1f8ea3d03000f154596525cc10234821347be6204ed395661a62e3a37dbab3