Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d290772da6b84855…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 21:35:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: eb10f47cae64c8fc3975efb313be117e SHA-1: 066a70058c439c37987bdca7a7dbd4f0224d58c9 SHA-256: d290772da6b8485554d2ca8eed067a286ced1fb502322dcbbff4c1c6fd8e8a7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links points to an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160945f6ac4de6---24497532345.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/tatumodamimilowozemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/064267978e251b133b6ccd8dbc002e6f/20504124109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romangruszecki.com/uploaded/file/31815964438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cb5b51ab53766f111cb01e990a4d3dc/63001048091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/87586327417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/sojukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/perusirebexowewoviwovotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f72edf1b35---52472422163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspiredindianfoundation.org/uploads/lokexoburofakuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/94770251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shosholoza.de/file/nonejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/92927041125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5081c27ce---depezalepupowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/94583241019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inarchengineering.it/userfiles/files/64195794887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e400cc36f---rusopevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qhrje54q66k8kfc43s89r6md4h/dodojaban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082aa6515109---jonatudovarom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07dc1d6435c4c679dad59383491ddd7d/93934644142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d732eb30a4---11384778516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49b8f165e6c4dd7f4cefca6ee0187043/josabafamometawiriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brod-plovdiv.com/images/kopedekaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=signs+of+parvo+in+a+catPDF 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_off0000ef58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF58 10616 bytes
SHA-256: ddf8ee51ddd953f9fce3391c3e9d3303ee103f601b18cd60059029e8ae67d4c8
font_01_sfnt_off000107cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FDF 16184 bytes
SHA-256: 074710053ca0667a0fd40940c23a1114338f2754256e9083a0441cb61268b254