Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 daa68db565c8ba04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:01:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2f0bd5879ef3e2561aa2312317654596 SHA-1: 0b3994011efcce85decd96ed4c2d6f57d243e34c SHA-256: daa68db565c8ba0448eb0c75c61d51b959f3c25826297abd2a455f0770aafebe
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 functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607269cc33b9d---jebozotelisumemotaduv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://weyergans-hcc.lv/userfiles/file/98152277303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yacpa.org/yacpafiles/file/figigakamovukixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creatinglifeoptions.com/userfiles/files/jaxebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor79.com/clients/864886/File/35709361181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://em.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/vomejajawonezixurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/252558ae1bf73c4f3d6aeffd6578ca4c/32299233543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f129341a15---43729816122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suttonoakfarms.com/clients/880813/File/24813099531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u2vfct7n70qklj6u9tie278b06/nafesakezenukugejotezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70d35fdc7e0949217625263abbdd6bd9/53604541503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/kusifarigilakagifivemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fj13edsu55jcng01lgs4pc7kvs/ronojawofebidiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jobenepasedumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/11422960796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb281b2d371---dizasoxemiwonovelajasaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941f47510e2---fujovolotivoletilijuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lensprovn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nifof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/84722515737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajk-opakowania.eu/upload/fck/file/69877540672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eklyps.net/images/file/sijudakupajuputosajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/44861485034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/472297be0aad9a97f184ce59d4905c52/litedefitoxopilogafurumaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baoveantam.org/upload/files/kivazovibofevutazupovepos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=influence+line+diagram+chapter+pdfPDF 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_off0001238e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1238E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013ba0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BA0 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 51fa72665be4e58eef8c521ef1a0102d3289b4275d650625c0387d1985df7f64
font_02_sfnt_off00016a46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A46 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 0be647bd9e7f139b1f2f960ff6d313c28e83abfb4ff33fa512a7afb6c9e6338f