Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c357fa7728b82c9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:35:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a3d2b754409999423644679428a8e5a0 SHA-1: 9d92bc5443296183f3a32f5460bf8752d86e1006 SHA-256: c357fa7728b82c9e1a649c256432145266376ca487b76673644c0f28fab7a926
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a multi-stage redirection or phishing campaign designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9666

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 http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c069340eac5---93416527088.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cmjla695bfd6st3oogru8u7722/zikili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tktravel.shop/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210611_53BC1CCB48601A05.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbdd9ec1e0552c427341dd1ad56e796d/60236501815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2bf82c51c---99669277937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usarsenal.it/userfiles/files/mikijugagofefosegamemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be270dd380c---vikimej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natur-pet.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/resugotonutesaxijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcd0df2bac0---70194761742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d29ca3de69---4759994524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watosaphotography.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210626_125441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/mosiporezufujekedisad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74e8a3a28bfcdbf828177bb8343d6dcf/85024695991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7165edbda53524c8101137cab68cc47e/63304464442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073adf03508f---6449815374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locnuocvietmy.com/Images_upload/files/55610008596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/33331991021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b423d85ea99---rufafobemewujutiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/buxelefaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de54e12931037632af395c470c44db41/koxazowovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737408a6faf---50786441066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b799ad4cfc26f2307f812f85d0a869a0/vigiwofepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solo-enoant.com/content/files/files/43975035588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sp-pir.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94de5dfc87d77f4c5b23297a20aea20f/28644506418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c74a13b7498---11548520107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/josevivaxirixirepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=hcm+for+catsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013339.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13339 16104 bytes
SHA-256: 0defef0870559ec3a9bbb8f31a77b3e0986ad4fade5b4cc0f8fe88b0f15c9028
font_01_sfnt_off00014885.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14885 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016097.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16097 17124 bytes
SHA-256: 77a913940bf65f9fd78b2a50d89ce30da7329672a42702fd1ded40e2c081a1ad
font_03_sfnt_off00018d81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18D81 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 40ca6a95cba83e2ff57429af49c1f457eaa8ffc04bf070cd67b020e0919f8ae5