Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dae0f821a93df25a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-08-23 09:17:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d6d6900826e616ba7c1ddbe350dfb426 SHA-1: d7d52fda167b74912856b8a759b1e500c9be85f3 SHA-256: dae0f821a93df25a8e6808ed0c9c9949100e08dd75c1e8765449546558d0dbdb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress sites and other potentially malicious domains. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to attacker-controlled infrastructure, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=printable+celsius+to+fahrenheit+body+temperature+conversion+chart+pdf
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc9utp72nhvs2bob10fl84j74l/nidefurofovoviregetila.pdf
    • http://elskenecologie.nl/files/vosokewowatijibil.pdf
    • http://abbuffalowings.com/uploads/files/metukofemujemak.pdf
    • http://hkalc.com/userfiles/wapujak.pdf
    • http://www.psoealora.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kojuwanopularafaxuzoda.pdf
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/45797481944.pdf
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098193c3a9e3---kamokakugod.pdf
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p455tif3cdgdqu4jitin3co9d7/17178290166.pdf
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21b1960311---63574887689.pdf
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/27212969333.pdf
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210701/file/16251356307159.pdf
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/31451237201.pdf
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8051fa4c823e8bc62843865acc8f1be9/49265279557.pdf
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/43500396490.pdf
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/64548903223.pdf
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e38f52131e44889e643b68765d0e8f22/20510230852.pdf
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/67853110030.pdf
    • http://k-sta.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210728_1DC01867EFEEB768.pdf
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddf4c35f1de---39909991706.pdf
    • https://stayinbranson.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/ziperunu.pdf
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608244af1595e---nojuxegimutidatuxufu.pdf
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/899164a2ce6861c97c9722ebc196b581/88086647586.pdf
    • https://hardlineconstruct.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/dabuliwizevivejejiri.pdf
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/31867496226.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f364.bin
4cbf7464c308e03ac77ddc4cbc52cf9f3ad3a5863cfce3b4d65be4e5b601f198
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF364 17564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012102.bin
183c66c4638c2ad8c46dff88ef97c0f61bc9322d219f21848851d2f7e1612cd9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12102 11308 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013b3b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B3B 16792 bytes