Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b857449c6c8c7f58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:10:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5501abea0d402d4a3e05e103dbbf03be SHA-1: c565de959281988d01c6c2275484f0f45b0f99fe SHA-256: b857449c6c8c7f5842b1013cb586f9a4379d8159434ee95a84fb645ef8c37e1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a pattern of hosting malicious content on vulnerable websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdd9771b78f---fexanuvokiniwam.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0846f2f6bc---41053918329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chouchouphuquoc.net/upload/ck/files/fexotokuzimalizepefamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/tijugesolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43158a492f49dabb9e519f44ca450c46/fawos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113d1b318d14---59811846960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yameitecl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210807_221358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d11fda6654---womevaxuvaradajunipewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guinyardfamilyreunion.com/clients/62985/File/motegikajevasixevejujile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f4128ee44549bf418163850995f6066/67270735851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tonuvekozivabusaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginniglobal.com/uploads/file/13577484882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/22331453941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb64ba293b3---fesuxuwibavomiwokafupoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tristar-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97096396521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krone-murten.ch/userfiles/files/12379999817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/zejorumojisubanukapirux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sculecuacumulator.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/sujetoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092bef19ef97---sogiwiriramejanoluxoridel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxlinder.com/admin/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91656276566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a8ea200aa8---jisabovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelfurniturecn.com/d/files/nefaguvojeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/67262882812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tdfp8dhnkhg8u72qf84kvo8uj1/67949070686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=hp+z8+g4+workstation+pdfPDF 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_off00014204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14204 19268 bytes
SHA-256: 3e9598bc876184779ee82f94bb4221d4d2c6b792c24394fea8c5c79ba32ef576
font_01_sfnt_off000174b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x174B6 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 784c87a7c8a260eaffaebfb758d120fea4b54f64dca31d8b9781e64194c7a54e
font_02_sfnt_off00018e57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18E57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1