Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d28fdf0c4bb32ffd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 22:22:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f2d0d84c8c2801708cd341eb711abb8d SHA-1: b71756c6784905c7cf03e6da9f8ef0d04d40e6a9 SHA-256: d28fdf0c4bb32ffd48ce9f166b69ac9b13b1bab2f5deb2a1b549d17bb7f7f155
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The document body is unreadable due to encoding, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/pakilotumogonizizepimin.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/60493103110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/8069200184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b423e12cc36---79244888457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733e1d941c8---toguvikeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6de8715a1---tunepurabomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belst.by/upload/file/67552749053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d64dd6d20b1---pawexagigizufofelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/39465474060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f696b33d5c7b3371e57236a38ec5150/miratagamopunubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithattamphuong.com/upload/files/60319772039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b14fc5b246---wuzugobepuruwurozoxinumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/61869978644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/4629986523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2206bb9e3c---dosakozenoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/5576343833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjnkuc0noevkqk41mdghb68bm6/vudoxuzulomugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/12620969621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/nizanudofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a00f39ea69f---74383065175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/55970598350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniontend.com/userfiles/files/xidiribisebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e5f5ec1b7---87324818425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e1835ce8c5c0797a2933662255eb91d/pesugolebefekedumamop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/fumezojojugirapago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=imaginary+exponent+rulesPDF 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_off0000e8ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AB 10864 bytes
SHA-256: f34cba37c42b67c4c65646bf4a8f4e1e34e977a13187168bf880f5e3fb46b0b7
font_01_sfnt_off000101bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101BF 18720 bytes
SHA-256: 9c44116930037ccff8fe85f99b438d4f9fefc82a2a5ad2e4bcb64f9b31336557
font_02_sfnt_off000133bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014bcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BCC 16088 bytes
SHA-256: d06246de5fbca08a8e71b3266423534d5cc020e17a1f81eafc946de7058d617f