Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1493a3de314552e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:54:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 981475641b698193fdba2b4729023277 SHA-1: d21ebab1c5a48074d5f7ce4cb4d6ba76c0062bfd SHA-256: d1493a3de314552ead1ecdd307c8bf2f5ba74c5d3e25309f246b309366d0322f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. This is indicative of a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://plnjl.com/userfiles/files/mavubasisawatojavarorinex.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609030fda23a5---68129355073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9k7hdu8jts3j7bjttv7ib7336b/90095310774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c34e7775369---pupirutosozakesebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jb2cvhei82gtl1jmhue5aamdjv/45839743905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e392864c92780e16f1ea0e00cc6ba8f1/83499985326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e1qtm2elhccmgqt5k9962l3sq/ropokugaxugerojenuratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pujcovnanaradi-tvarozna.cz/userfiles/files/36274691667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vervesimuhub.com/userfiles/file/dinovawuxajuwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongkoo.com/uploads/editor/files/78397422493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e75b9a286---poson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grouptm2.com/contents//files/8296003706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/fejupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/13156880189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijn-nederland.nl/userfiles/file/28079351013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/bajowewefifozatopumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehideawayresortpattaya.com/userfiles/files/56739499522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104ca3d839c5---91166659041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/sizugubunenuxapudef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cestovni-postylka.eu/userfiles/file/30374784885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/22176968946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/xereb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.cz/res/file/tinupilemizajurete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laweasy.kr/userfiles/file/67933734784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malerbetrieb-malanders.de/Webseite/pics/fotos/1/file/gigobofaratuwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=rog+strix+motherboard+manualPDF 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_off000113b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113B2 11080 bytes
SHA-256: bad7c049621cf4c81516f51e5cc18b2797f461b2eed6cd99f41e55aa29ba700d
font_01_sfnt_off00012d25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D25 20448 bytes
SHA-256: 0c9a0e30d6019123140cd4701cb4605325286b1b909083acc3f1e63cc07a1d2d
font_02_sfnt_off000162c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1