Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5eabf8ff2fe1194…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-08-01 23:16:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f821cf9adca37abeb9560e1e76a29d58 SHA-1: c1529819df1cf3f229ce170c8293dd14eddfbd94 SHA-256: d5eabf8ff2fe11946bf3d70115afbb92fe263281149065b7fd403681f8f9d962
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous compromised websites, many of which appear to be WordPress sites with vulnerable plugins. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload or lead users to phishing sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9907

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.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9f7af330f---bapovazamofodosi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/24827770303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860497337f7---10257308508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773648c711a---fevedaranilugawomota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipublicity.cz/data/file/67019794375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b4a2d068e---57891767983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfbee.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210706185016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hart-metale.pl/gimnazjum/userfiles/file/4550947915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swhwsolution.it/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/98301540596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/natusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/94640911598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/71448655972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7noks4mavgpc42oj4n6mgv601/pujowasonexonutiperij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nebafipazalifiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dls6n343kjr17ud0mhl6cmhak7/xuvujatedomafadokoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ve8ks0j24kiceetqvjpe95nkgr/6083044726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/mupepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a768567d1b9---92194731883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/musade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5i4gkfguota9amf32rgfficcv5/lidopato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021072004064380554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d3b0fcd557ca68dcbcadcd90fb8c122/97469127707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cadf2ed30b---fifagejutojiribes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stasta.com/userfiles/file/bupelodene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zagorjeadventureteam.hr/files/6900628470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e11e685f4ab---61444917071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/12182916708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=joey+badass+b4da%24%24+album+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c7a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFBB 10836 bytes
SHA-256: a1abf392a97478fdedea56a9baced8863c57452d2cf149eefc790edb0e49a1da
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8EA 16160 bytes
SHA-256: 27fa49ca30b1f57c6e4f8b99ad1f73ead7010ce1f191e20d716503af09158f46
font_03_sfnt_off00010e5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E5F 17100 bytes
SHA-256: 20d5b895893a9b0b049b38a2c4a05e5da9bc72648e3fc91dedc084236db500dd