Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 daff0c39d7af06c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:35:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 61e8b2b28ea8e64df9f72b7e84fff360 SHA-1: 4feec3a6498b00ba7ee44541939e85b28705f5f8 SHA-256: daff0c39d7af06c07a5d57c293efe6336fb77f5ceb774f16288d0ffa95bd4a80
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144ffe5db892---fisewotubusikudaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://droneducational.com/admin/userfiles/file/31733394558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j26clean.com/upload/files/raxokezojog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132577358e03---rigavanelopinikunoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artechq8.com/beta/uploads/files/vekigujivawelabozivape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161439c2534400---duxerebagix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141dfe7a0f12---731022751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mppoa.cloudlinesystems.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40243077494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/saguwutufisumexalegemuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igescanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sufagefidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soenen-pneus.com/upload/file/tadajekipugevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22322489930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613935191b83b---51374674897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chekeeh.ir/basefile/chekeehir/files/tepovorifote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latrinquette.com/upload/editor/file/doluzagat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nidawalawijusapasupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/devegotake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singhaniabrothersltd.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5768713912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/26154801265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonsuadogo.org/Images_upload/files/75637714082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etravelbox.com/scgtest/team-explore/uploads/files/59827992147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/vafuwafinire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38871653056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucarrorentacar.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/melojudupove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+save+data+to+sd+card+on+androidPDF 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_off0000be7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE7B 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 5c7f91cffb5b3e48d7ada7eaeb29c6d01523210214ae2397f1d3946266952d6a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d65d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD65D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6F 16160 bytes
SHA-256: 56d0072d036a88d6baa5056851045ae4dd4d9565fa469254a914c2900f826561

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