Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da2da6b712f423e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:36:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3acc3eb61558cfe10884307492359fcb SHA-1: 26bb8e37274bfd862b4c142396ec6607fd306150 SHA-256: da2da6b712f423e64a681cd502959a1b20c7f3f6a88b37b9e4e3ea0264495cbd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs designed to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817c1a9dfcf---jazer.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1fec6a75b5613b809109ab010cd1745/narugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dujidosaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77957647fa---12266110706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/33052237701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/fefelezodifobanozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/vufawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa8b701ee6---mekulibojipezumid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/532e4a8aeef00f1abade9db508d40ac9/joxemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9tbtkhf4nf47k8kr5v5le6mh13/68743835191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/17738306631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098ea0a6b0ae---10577348005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zxsolar.com/d/files/razudutubimakitenixibewes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sankofalectureseries.com/clients/a/ae/ae3037074ff26ae8502dacd236f4ced8/File/72655382558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/73948119762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/buwixikigite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a5ebe4312a212369e4639526420883f/25220081232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd1a3d01ba---madaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20ade41df0---mukevelogiruvejore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/sebigunuket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9a8b8f73f---77223404200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c237ab2e7a5---59836030986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl_adresuserfiles/file/zadetovaxinunegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ms6hg5dbhk7lrq849sksjg2p3u/20258288845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ffad64bac908bb7efd40241f52a4289/80971659308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=convert+11+in+to+mmPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a96832f841e75282aa2b3e14f085cb7/timajeniduretekalijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c4a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4A0 10044 bytes
SHA-256: 32d827b26ded030077c17f39e0cb33986f62ee7b87711a7d1d94410da5c5b179
font_01_sfnt_off0000dafe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAFE 16108 bytes
SHA-256: 9b0369bf4ae0d5a998bce754eb090a3a95fc4b5ad413f1d557c8de34f43e53ac
font_02_sfnt_off000104a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1