Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d497fa73c15b07ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:27:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6df53e936af57b2db0f99bc16f3242c3 SHA-1: 1e79f59ba060ea5ad59c5fbe85ad73c8cbd96de8 SHA-256: d497fa73c15b07ff8faec8b175aa805823859296023609e214f055caaf23bd23
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates these links are likely used for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to lure users through search engines.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab5914b18adade70f17b2fda36f37d34/tufiviz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3v3soggc15hfnlkcj8aaasrha0/veramazitepopanediwovate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/1799533230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a00afc234e5---bidun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madison62alumni.com/clients/e/e8/e84cd6a5166dbe8c5f6852bff763f4b2/File/62638123950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/matuzosorakagigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r5kuqoi82sroj23f06ujbqmvt3/35125002609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopabrang.com/images/files/tepezinufozed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutricion-intravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/259c3fbc17f1fbf5774190404cf7753d/vemigeninofudukewukuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhuyscampingcar.fr/images/files/6083382256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/41506890750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a7f2cdc55---35928052677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/89715191245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071828a65d39---77356297240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084415f53342---43194166956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611fe93a8d37e---firebafilivokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1623135225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangnhatbanonline.com/upload/files/wizuraganaxukozeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/jonupajepozasafofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f23f702f6ef3bf5b6635ae25596a9f5c/98885278896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8540c55e87f9ca9104d2ff9d764da4cd/ximaviwikivokirobifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085867be8530---regowimupugexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andymullinscommercial.com/home/andy/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69829463270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/2540113010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/nezizovebizuguwivef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/77035668411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/19943927051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=differential+equations+pdf+nptelPDF 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_off0000d9c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9C4 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 976de02085a53e672ee14d174712993b36beb56f5f0f068fd572ef6877a75de9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f25a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF25A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A6C 16408 bytes
SHA-256: 520942bb839f1a63ce00c20a0a1636a1a696dea5452ad0887c20f75d616de430