Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da471334dfc01a8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-07-30 18:55:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4cbd7f9c2bf05ec2d766e91662592348 SHA-1: 7b7ee0e07532c9fc442404496a7ece921056e95e SHA-256: da471334dfc01a8d405add98078c89f669aaac76eef1d2d2648434b89799e739
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which likely serve as part of a link farm to obscure the final destination. The presence of these link farms and the overall structure suggest a phishing or redirection attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a7b31e823---26636727263.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c2c676d8c6cafbe0838305ff37460b5/33964408690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/58724019112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkoksolarpower.com/syner_upload/images/files/49912413983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/fuvex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/ragora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3cff51e394---ronetoxubamoxinilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/453a835ce97dbbc557c11f2e8a9123b5/fuzav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/jesadavefagipuwejaxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/07/file/202107300343057721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/32941053993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44ba6d0897a5298a96a2c0bab058ad27/wefozokiwazemutugumefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8fb30ecde---siwulijiwodemikokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessedfamilycovenant.org/clients/c/cb/cb727bc273eb4203dc66fb73741ae5ae/File/22865662485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/44745600185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velo.hu/UserFiles//file/lidujibafizijebopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c203e1312---guwaxidisax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/823bd4bee45fad2c10e656d368347e8a/nomefakupomorumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indikino.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57097158674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07805ff9f2b7efba1f4f51a73c672c8c/gixaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096dcc434020---39972289161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/kiwowijani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-box.biz/upload/datoteke/wirolavofagivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/wabikedizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+calculate+the+load+bearing+capacity+of+a+concrete+slabPDF 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_off0000c23b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC23B 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 90a49769134bc635b8703753a06fdf3bd72bf819f82bea350af22db2e281f2be
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f481.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF481 16032 bytes
SHA-256: 8cb2c80bdbf5e79241f68e5356e85f494077ceda34848f74223767afd23848cb