Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da722650b7f31805…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-08-15 07:31:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6d18d0f888e10c571d2224ea116a77b4 SHA-1: 51134ef82102e558a7e68c61017f9f0cf5d2a091 SHA-256: da722650b7f31805428fa273d028fe31e6b3a98b4080417bab51f92b6d56a495
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other domains, likely intended to distribute further malware. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/31944775811.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc909e8171d---39666462674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-sign.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28752165914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aabe18eb3e---susubebozazedumana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/6717266718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sage-chem.com/image/files/20210710_121647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accidentmatters.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94801982122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/86831380516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7ab09c8517262f9f859ebe11bd6921d/676535909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.monts.sk/upload_images/file/26779529523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gqqp0octv3t42ul441ol2rohfr/74390567813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baohanhranghm.com/upload/img/files/reboxepop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cc175c65a---netenexafiwopoduxuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee0bfc2c462---sedugifetat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987b41018a6---29993527610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094cab87da95---xepoditeveleliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb1004.com/userData/board/file/58367747116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f10800b6b7---35033159395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madeinstlucia.com/userfiles/files/jevujowijomupowivibaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmriptek.org/codeIgniter-hmvc/userfiles/files/10267118579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c90b4731c3---48601963833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076228700616---rupizupururidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=smok+novo+2+owners+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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f51c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF51C 16556 bytes
SHA-256: 1911acce2dc83e6c057cd81ed646a0267a9e2e24ffed2dc9dffddbca37bae50f
font_02_sfnt_off00012001.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12001 17648 bytes
SHA-256: 7fff2436e8cf6ddab5d6327ba736e4f6b88817cd6671a59249d36e82c7483134
font_03_sfnt_off00013868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13868 10620 bytes
SHA-256: cfa51346c89ce29fa7ad33c5ca22106e49a30014a688f63e8a75596c3ed016b8