Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db624436c3f40e79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:08:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 37cdf7a95bcb34c571a625d8d1f7327c SHA-1: a4799ddd00ad1a9de567bf849fd5d985387356b8 SHA-256: db624436c3f40e7910e6b74f437aa26d6885a3371eae7941e7571af23424d8cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous URLs hosted on compromised CMS platforms points towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c981eed34d---zewixalajusu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608474f0c720b---76041849271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/jazamosexedevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/nawejugejumesikuduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b974d7a5e55---32458982601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d191f13e6798d4bac055b2e78a3426b/51574043771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bff1d8ac80974604dabc7dd3a41cf4be/69971298974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/womigiwudiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077aa0065e6b---pirutalukuwewudigidox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbc83c1815071938a774d4b7fe99e1d4/30631619709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylowa-pss.pl/userfiles/file/87489156174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b94078e4639---57220284222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a0c99e83a01bb6dd2390925b9e1e8e2/mepajuduxexosisetuweligor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/22672652342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094cf84088ad---94554291874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/075992f610f94cf46f873cb0bd2d1917/71922457367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/180838388950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74a0e543b32bdf39ce80b692e1ca7fa4/ripanizuges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf5ed7d238---vorimefakesuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12hp8uqlh23ubpnedl77mgb57j/67591385523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecresconsolidamentorestauro.it/fck_data/file/lakadipatokovutupiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3b5mnvnl8j4ln82g21ih41mtb/kezuzubeneturuwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalshield-uae.com/userfiles/files/73111281873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92ef6e93b3---pajifupogiwowulanimelegez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=if+two+lines+are+perpendicular+thenPDF 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_off00010126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10126 10852 bytes
SHA-256: e335db6cb2058da0544608e3cbc3c50afc978eb7a91ef0690a916aca08e97bed
font_01_sfnt_off00011a37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A37 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 7178f2ea42622077659c8fae60c0a03024d03c4b689fca89569450bc6f4ec536
font_02_sfnt_off0001487f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1487F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1