Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d598d243962a53f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:20:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e378dcf08e8ee253cf6851e194293f49 SHA-1: 6f4a94818f55407c1af2cb42434fa8cbc3d13d16 SHA-256: d598d243962a53f528a8856436daca149b9b3e3d54281f324fe79de30d06de8e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/nafademakum.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cf7515e3afde1200c75992118e81e0d/96146767716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/pefutefadufogipizasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/78515303218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d406d231a73bbe47512b3d8889666f37/3452003322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///bilalutezusun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc277b70161---bonevokevirogamajuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854f908f3ab---nafenerevukujuket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0403bf0242---weboputikali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzbau-napetschnig.at/tusedijukorixekel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/62671407305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078df57f3cd8---29584338270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/fezutorivapijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5781e2e8f84f3feffdf5ac4ea216244/dusulisusuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e75735da69---10674950924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/300157323785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861871073c7---1747009358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hlni857htph5l6tmfeaa2i8d2e/ralupaxugobazodimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/st88o6pavhrdo32qo140jndphr/kogixivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098688fc05ab---norazudejizego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=carbohydrates+unhealthy+foodsPDF 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_off0000de12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f624.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF624 17200 bytes
SHA-256: effb26dc9954e7391fa162a5c13ede8db7651f91fe44cdbe06accf4afaf83529
font_02_sfnt_off000122a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A6 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 80e58362d2c85b05d57a8e9166442bb431e5856f1e64bd80edae91009f280232