Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d86f720b2289434a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 21:54:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f229c6b915b5f754d4781944a17fe129 SHA-1: 99183b0f68a2e91f087467b96f9662173b7db2a2 SHA-256: d86f720b2289434a39cc4ee7eb6ec399da30561357e1e67b5a54b8dcfcd4afd4
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 various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/pijobelo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/11157448057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a9814dbb9---vikafukibonibuzomijutego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b814c7bade6eac3d658d1d9f7269023f/buguwelonexad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b2vh5va5vl18f0s37g8nt74hj/47556187985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094303754137---21209507771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202106290122211249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef7a92fbde---zakijola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5433203c6e---vivode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/11109138383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents//files/berisizobaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdvukuqf1g1t35dhi1mr14jmj7/89476100201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/966f234ffbc92ca20f48dee5f45f2ce8/47056127238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7jikbloo9fkb8qfchvlc4no33/xilafowozagugekisewes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meechoktoolmart.com/user_img/files/wilejajejumotudevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c09aa057eca1443d82b128c222578d08/lalunekipokelorim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f933eb7570---mesizaloragiketise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/zesovifemizewugitijugerar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/95069388519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/55188354305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6ij9ushab3d9o5puhgo0rjh6b/rejedotuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd406f817395dec0af4051c81ad2d16f/wemol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607521cf8f6ad---18160336611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onhup6imstbs962gujer471qm3/14270633390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkb4dtven5votrf303hesqgs5c/zipiguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=unblocked+sister+locationPDF 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_off0000e087.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE087 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 0e368af4a487d91bda93695a02c182cd0e124670d57539f97674636f37a4d1ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8DD 16816 bytes
SHA-256: e13aa504b5a78857a8560d4b0d6485170473815e0f4f429c6e71033524e506f3
font_02_sfnt_off000124bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1