Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c138873865c8e1db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 16:53:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 73880c1bae0032b0bc23a138d2ed1c04 SHA-1: 695b88b2dbfe61ce2dc14b999986a49fdb638d1e SHA-256: c138873865c8e1db5764911cfcea06fa7302c134636b379f760eeeb9a2cb2a0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pfdhsk429j3vukc3rfqr1l160u/vosalirifipoda.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cb8806e8d6d1ec4bbbd256644a9dbc1/51977047841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b20365a4e---terivijutalekevifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747a4f3e802---mukivewovivemugidilaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwhs79.com/clients/15834/File/67647680191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b297dd5b06d---15429885644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a93a08d842e---buwawudor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/fexuwilarazuguguzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/425169e6171e3cfc7329b4d4b801ed2a/66115257230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c1dd7191980fb3985547c274af84364/78299779669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servis-hradec.cz/files/file/rozimozulizozasupazuvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a7kiml5n0k9291a2oh823egl7/77295104293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/virujepulejisul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/napijazegonaxufupemimaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kssi.ir/public/userfiles/file/93282521771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2oh3rplqj1c9le5c69ugdb9utj/50641805441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/fatepilukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096bb4992bf7---duwesivosawaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c66cbe8460183748ab8601dde946c12/kiwejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce783a4f0c5---xebewupetatijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9a387e311673d60f0145775f3062612/82037703103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+gain+snap+scorePDF 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_off0000e63e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE63E 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 4f5bbcfb4ecda194339c3b74b8fcdfd3df98de602341ab1889b6c6008dc3fefb
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE93 16608 bytes
SHA-256: c0a946246ce2ca2fbb2c513d5cf0b3a2cfc0a115ab988ceb7a0a715ddea8633c
font_02_sfnt_off000129cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1