Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d44bafa118c8c57e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-08-10 08:21:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 924bf95b95436d637e1a4bf35ab2706c SHA-1: db1354b7eb2fa74e10d3dfef245ed97a23ea3581 SHA-256: d44bafa118c8c57e59ece7db258d995e863d129aa61dc074c3ef4f9d711f6f81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, acting as a link farm. These links likely serve to obscure the final malicious destination and distribute the payload across multiple compromised hosts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1pcg1s4qvbs09pm764vsn7beq3/57275189930.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3b783a9d5739b628d61eacb80d11759/lidorukaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d5f9a1cb0---madodedaladoposata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7edd89c357bbf9b3004f6bc198b91883/zatupovewizalefeforese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a9b9ce415---mijexozagavuxikamakena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/77518459352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/657069a440c0a50623be741aefee8537/49191336637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kalenumuzijepoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/foxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70356958700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/madojudapigudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/begezewipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2ee1c42805---molagifiweminewudotibibep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073aed1ebaef---neralejif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumsnab.ru/uploads/files/rovewabadorasobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607add3490b5f---77547194685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/tafanaxobajejuwolig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasz-pap.hu/UserFiles/file/daxatilomefedosipumonek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba21e3aa0b5---65858952039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kantoromega.pl/userfiles/file/muvaxenusekavuvumudolavuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsprt.com/uploadfile/file///2021051011061058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilanatofishing.com/home/sandbox/domains/shelter.sandbox.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23692727989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c460b51e951---virijatovepizolenolewon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=como+bloquear+fotos+no+facebook+para+ninguem+compartilharPDF 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_off0000ed75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED75 19448 bytes
SHA-256: ac6f53fb53d21d72a1c2c83ceb5739685b08d16006b676ff87defe8cc97e0b6c
font_01_sfnt_off00011def.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DEF 11436 bytes
SHA-256: 71a4d269a72c222bbd142c5fd9ef92dfe56f5302584190618c7fb4234617397d
font_02_sfnt_off00013844.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13844 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1