Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c418ecc4746794b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-24 18:52:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 526353909fb8fdbca7f17d19aa3d5f00 SHA-1: 70277545e4da87ad4f75ff1af9f1fe69e781ce91 SHA-256: c418ecc4746794b20ca729f1774a86f921317055df9064ab604a55d06e5b5dd2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign where users are lured to click on links that lead to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51e50e96379c37dfb31aa20501c91096/kajulupi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://firmen-bekleidung.at/userfiles/file/xadowaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84122729942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/gitolebaraximanazizowukum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/nimadulotovugutid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/72082389473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7dc5f24548---vufeduwodipukusejorewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a974683f5a0ecc345590b0a6c35152d/dilowonigafanapibumuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/jesawivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogeldua.com/contents//files/ropozajagikaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/87245891247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twfern.org/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210528100425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://obermeyer-modemarkt.de/upload/file/70702785150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///dovuxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/44287079923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/31309621211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076dac053fbe---rajuxefujafisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/komozemivawev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/50895069669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/92053168351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vr4l37b50hfvbgn2j5pcntn6g4/nuxitufinikizedawupove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=le+pass%C3%A9+compos%C3%A9+exercices+ce1+pdfPDF 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_off0000e7a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A8 19312 bytes
SHA-256: 6a23aa6f5e4601b0cd93f406b514f6f42ce14587bb4ac3c55c8f16bb225a1711
font_01_sfnt_off00011955.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11955 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001316c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1316C 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 98f943e3a8029e71962ecab8d541ce918e8975e8cdb8185d46032e669595bd72