Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b933308bf7e44946…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-23 13:50:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 14122fcded0595305354ba2e87757da8 SHA-1: 90cbcd177e27c8590f228e6fe352caccf31f966f SHA-256: b933308bf7e44946e51ea75902332296138783a88247e72e7b36a81abc6e734e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://fanti-fitness.pl/uploads/assets/file/17766897659.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mantyobras.com/userfiles/file/74008126275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-kutnahora.cz/gais/image/file/forubefojikenikerovoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161407ed13ed96---75103687220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d158a1a637---29210842744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/3729426375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614424053c633---turot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nriloan.jctoursandtravels.in/files/86205246274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indcms.testingmachines.com/images/file/20358203348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automyjka.pl/automyjka.pl/userfiles/file/duvunuzawimijugudixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a0f590df36---dupanelewogekekugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamphuhiep.com/Images_upload/files/62767465341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niktid.ru/userfiles/file/pagufiwezonoxebex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girisimcilikproje.com/resimler/files/55107546782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supragyn.cz/userfiles/file/lemidujapasuzuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32282125641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezastupitelstvo.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/43228866406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/rexewijakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150007.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210902093839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc27c20b3fa3290283fbc7e488f959eb/talurapinexavovufole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/xotinafeguwakat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161483f2558383---tagebupevitiworipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omnoiptv.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/mezasivuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319c9bec5ef---90299307405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=finding+nth+term+in+geometric+sequencePDF 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_off0000d533.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD533 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED45 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 69d9620509345ef8c362f7484c034c875be4ebc7451ada5ecebf23156862b96f
font_02_sfnt_off00011a9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A9A 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 79e246266933dd769f9ff366c0719efcb4cb2e805f40a3ee1202e7d7060d45cf