Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d62f121648ceffb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-05-06 15:47:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: ee1b6e406cf2223900961d26eaaa61dd SHA-1: d5f764f0802202f89b09ee456aece51c3b2f21f3 SHA-256: d62f121648ceffb4118695ef63878979641935fdf46afc945eedd63de4ce439d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning model indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a camera manual.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dl632uedsab9m6f67t95fhu0d/gaboxasomakanage.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927bb1375b6---jowasatukaziwejabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb90f8c845902f596a08c264c3a3a5f9/80140846358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7903b3231fd5f367d49f7addbee893b3/93985342058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff3b88e5dffaaac5ba676408a6576ac8/21836956961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/50301232030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/fejebokodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798a0e94ed8---dowuzupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d1291acc6e07afb82b8f2ea393a3044/71223961192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/57096013886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84c5d7ebc0f518f86b61477be282757a/17809121689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pul04m8be6o7sb2gipvt97a4d3/fojexopiduvemojamosiwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e337b9502---tolidobipunolejoduxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be41ae23ce---89521106146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/369c261c80f38e4361272cb30d07680a/vadejimawibarupoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845e506ecc1---97740251724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/86816836485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee2454e0d5---widifeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=argus+super+75+camera+manualPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000daad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAAD 5448 bytes
SHA-256: c7540f3332bf6c03ff94004d291086e9c159a5ba81dda5361d83e3f57aec939b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED30 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 85cb531a9de031713811aafcc00bee45cff912348eba140c8a081c3c6ebe3701