Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b91f92d51999decc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:46:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 00eadc69178ca2d414399d754e42e71b SHA-1: 24806d5c5458d4a8bcdb448613af9005304801b1 SHA-256: b91f92d51999decc90e0970b48dbdc9dd803f44d3f96314aa6f339a2ed68de15
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service, a common lure for phishing attacks. It contains numerous links to disposable hosting domains, many of which are associated with compromised WordPress installations. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to a phishing page or download a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793fd413b48---misosabagimabusatupo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ce2b4d1c4eb2cc1c280f5f1d0ce8be4/wimejazilog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83238518600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9cd67b7239---7861961851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af94564b5e7ae3ac2e1354f64775fc73/wezisejedaxofirokavurezuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee8d278d0f---78380475632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097564cc7462---63543920483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3nv8hlfgu4dkm89f46l5jdan4/zuvogopekuzuxiraweki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089cb4cbf163---pazivenukatoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c0a11bab8---54243857205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ocsrmgvgsghj7pk5npolai80i1/xefowaletofisuxasetikosaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/55426803584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c00730a80eae56a4499c132d01bdae5e/56145513394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarlampa.ru/upload_picture/89843214285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealskinz.ru/files/file/lenegogebaxiwapuzomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7fb2c6fcd---goleliropevururijakivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4395ead2a---sofebelerawipakesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bbaj6bmb3d2p98v5s3pp8jogf/xukabedazonedap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/wojonopuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=copy+reading+journalismPDF 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_off000151e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151E4 18096 bytes
SHA-256: 2faceaa37fe3dab88d572d7b0dabd58391a48e8a8d269d48352a503a5087ec6f
font_01_sfnt_off000180a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x180A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000198be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x198BE 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 77365f64ab0847f5a8b18b949d7ba35b8aa2b816b589b05f4e2d81f63709cfdf