Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d407f089cadb6863…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 22:14:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 89b2334fc435b6af5045d7f836827e80 SHA-1: 767e437a7dc2ccbc351db2948d377f53041fdbce SHA-256: d407f089cadb6863dadec6dce4d3d0835abd242b6b51e5c6e003385d1af1e0f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data, suggesting the primary malicious function is achieved through the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://shsuorui.com/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210619/file/16240760914025.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb9a10cc4ce---rorumoserumuxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnsonsdynastyincfamilyassociation.com/clients/10108/File/16662621377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ddc95dfcacf8db00857f941d70735fc/belelavaletoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/9575898917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/734111504db382aee969e5d5722a726e/94727403819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kochamsushi.pl/UserFiles/file/ramemenevarugazexakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f6dc2693820ec24517e361b052e28e2/20131723148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.lu/userfiles/files/vifitufixizaneribixogozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072630878153---giviwesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782bb671ab1---tepolitakogatapigivali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voyagerf.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8256918cf84fe80fe6da2933dbea9839/pepamixarubiwuxufebabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f28078a7534f61640ec54343fc0b7e8f/domulavorasitubowoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/irmki1v3eu1srersus6m0phdc1/61462207371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ac0a6400861ded105cdfce548b07ec3/25832922077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/51598293608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/53630159044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doucetplasticsurgery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72306351484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1598e922dde885417a47f42f350551ad/suluvova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/votudebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codienlanhminhquang.com/upload/files/64576706327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862ae8c1c4a---rasoxizegiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayfamilycircle.com/clients/5/53/53cd9f4101e72b768929e5daf979c2da/File/21322923306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e17c408a5---lurepotolilalosib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=suffix+for+hardeningPDF 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_off0000b999.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB999 10596 bytes
SHA-256: dbadd279881ac333977fedb9206f963c4f904ef26ff9a726dcbacbd12604a8e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000d18a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD18A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e99c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE99C 15876 bytes
SHA-256: 4c4c95f5f20e360b6f6c2d7b7c54ffe3cf25159d08fa21f130af8f7ecf2ca934