Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c022a319542e10e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-07-15 22:45:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 41c7f919bf08ba0447321f573c534324 SHA-1: 756727477ae15799efd1065aa0c37b7afd672e3f SHA-256: c022a319542e10e0e2bf4031db7529adf85c42cbca8b57f415a828d2fd56a4fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms points towards a phishing or redirection attack, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9625d9289eb93a7ffada58b1add977e/29499682107.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/guzovapawidobedonirerove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9b9c7f51b---zoviwuruvowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13a2b8a71981b2a1913304fc8fce8161/73696534503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb5d81589a---92812731231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2f70a23691494c1cb3f7a475e330db2/famodinedikotomuvizukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e54e6ca07c76ea9c613a5512092c777f/gokekixegijejiwowuvove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2i2266bkq6v5qnf3oorrnr6mn4/31335382068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/vozuluve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.de/img/upload/file/rajixumadapawelaguvemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759267dc48e---86518980418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/38359394470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0601560026fb54ad932fb7b40ed3d81/kepisatuzosafanaranaxopij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48a5147cf5---76603265198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1723427997---gutitubipowobuzot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookmyweddingup.net/clients/73542/File/46975812981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a86dc59d8c---kusukogonopukupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maginsaatmetal.com/resimlerfiles/65062621944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799fa5e7ce1---51293375123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synthecinter.com/userfiles/files/ladar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f128d8b1b---35515294611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7q5gdgfakfjt9pb3hmudr2g7g/luzididi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=funeral+sermons+for+family+membersPDF 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_off0001022e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1022E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A40 17848 bytes
SHA-256: 8dbbc839cc9c4c692a30ac2101742d793151c4935df72767a2b0a3c083c4ff49
font_02_sfnt_off00014806.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14806 10608 bytes
SHA-256: b5f02953eebe0281aa0a1f52fd608788022e2c19b56e30f77f49cf39e0f84350

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