Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d49e15324e50b820…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:11:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 21866295faaf031f901d02f0bec477d4 SHA-1: 44eb17814c05f9627359768cee06e36224611031 SHA-256: d49e15324e50b820cbb6fd701e51901744e9e6b993ba2d103d8777355c40ecef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially malicious content hosted on these sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://dptech.vn/uploads/files/xabetofubavo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee9b0034ae---26871398089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randygordonlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/46626283536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.red/yamituki-n/uploads/files/pojusiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dgcu964bmstvhj2aj7ee66u4b/reruvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reazfarah.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88919424799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zanhotel.ro/beficientconsultingFiles/file/25832425782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de98e9311c3---14081104649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1c3dcf211d---51493539870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0214789531---bozavonugoxuxexex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angeladaniel.de/uploads/files/82393361942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c9adf6d0d63a1f66dc467964630a71e/mikanipuxiwiwefudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79c68aa0658df4e0a39be97442dc75b5/16200419551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2440027.ru/upload/file/musiwutupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hattoco.vn/images/ckeditor/files/8142415363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73440943200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/14304698327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927b668c8b3---dezifivizevomesokelosoxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/65808897741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b94283d91cfab87ac34cc6591fa6d6bd/3883474118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arisutour.com/ckupload/files/54416415499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nppgursaraijhansi.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/venodonoxijunuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boatmonies.com/uploads/files/pewemekupategujonogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1fb60b8cb7---vawefewulobovipitiziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/xivevibajefokotiziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021629183392510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2df5dae1b5---puloxelagogezixubifuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=combine+two+pdf+documents+to+onePDF 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_off0000da9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA9F 17488 bytes
SHA-256: 6092135a36fbdf010135cff35d6aa7aa8d75de28be858f13fb59af8ef31612d9
font_01_sfnt_off000107b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC7 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 8a9d35bd349d85c7a0a8c076ed211ddf2308f89875bff45570f9884ebba5704c