Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d462ab057257b819…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 14:30:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e0c07f4d5f1008eac01def4edf9d170b SHA-1: f43c807d36add761b0db23b92a58006cd27a0b9c SHA-256: d462ab057257b8199384c569d8101eba3a7c5f09f2fbfaecf79f0e82e82cf645
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which likely serve as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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://waberry1969.com/clients/877040/File/48298754282.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/643b70306c1b00e63af479449e920eb5/nedozirinixubukovubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705ae4a915d---6592439156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608991bb6c8cc---63395999428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d65548c8310---18121954657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebce43151f---8608680429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/43904880017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c960e0a48c537564ecedf538c0e4670/duwibovilepabowabowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/30894683079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t502cd1ne5q5g6rp2j254kspb5/44842322089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ae77edbaa---bepitisax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd280d79df3---pozademadasemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bd87d675aa---16008011892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c41b09b0bca0e5e8f5afc9c465607b69/xitorulawapakujor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/57797606031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb7da394f9745293f8e4f555a3139c59/rukuxonivefuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vofepurexivarim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ttcbjj8mhaup1uvjuu74tfvu4t/72549244509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737a5737e10---85070766603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/tokofiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.ca/userfiles/file/jiduzorumasopopujuxawas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72ff0b45cf725f317d6e5e10db0f58d8/58698746665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/250b73151076111ccdbb1c66dfc2a008/95847847693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b34fb7f06184dba6cfbf335c44dd8a4a/mawusada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vekanemido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=standard+deduction+is+allowed+on+annual+valuePDF 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_off0000e853.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE853 16860 bytes
SHA-256: 870c3922d074f6324c116d513653aa3e1aa92bf237407bfa0ff0e35e189d1793
font_01_sfnt_off0001147c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1147C 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 50951c5b793630325f69bb0dd9a116e2dd198da850d432243edaa7a0de518d1f
font_02_sfnt_off00012d21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1