Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da1b8f9979c36ace…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-08-31 01:51:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 12a568673001c48be1e766ccab77b253 SHA-1: df4ae44c483167450d4d426796a0540bce1664d7 SHA-256: da1b8f9979c36acedd000ab2a17986136f93bf90eda71c0fdd21d228da8377ed
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to PDFs hosted on various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The presence of a link farm and the use of disposable hosting suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content, likely a phishing lure or further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8d42dc753321be2333b3f1b6e3ece97/96950834746.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842fc13e3c8---6602903780.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/335008510e88cecc659715aa79a16c8e/didokigezuwudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210630150418_ghpkep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acmemask.com/upfiles/editor/files/7523329165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f79uk949207ifijd8qa695m1gi/tuzasowoputisokufivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec917572cf915f14aee89a462bb7e1b/24542816487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f97e966a94---88779675342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43rn464kl5e80ddf6tl85d2no4/gatuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmt-tw.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/xuvudenavifivojawonaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4509be5528---64585753300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyfestival.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tejurujufajibomonajagag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee6383eead5---xivojilenatomekafin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matskaren.se/anvandarbilder/203/files/fixaxogerunetij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9684de5d3d7a558b878d2c10d7770e5/tafaxepixaxijazizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/928d326ee1d91a2682fe317afc87f074/daxelozuvagukeromokowasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/zijawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/bebomubosozajowusoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/93809315161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/15980065921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/32500764334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jikeaptevpckmrej6isfbgjg0g/71605877493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=omr+sheet+150+questions+pdf+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA1F 16852 bytes
SHA-256: 206c3b12cb1a7a898f9b73f44871b6a387c6d64bb45f54eec3547a782619471a
font_01_sfnt_off000105cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105CD 11428 bytes
SHA-256: a349ea9767b207528bcc7ea2d0ebd14448755d1e0321bd0c2f7ae3db987233ce
font_02_sfnt_off00012082.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12082 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1