Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc40ab23fe7496d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-22 06:04:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4ba040a52ffa196bd95d8046425e1a66 SHA-1: 7f2767695f05e895d862398b52d2aff141c57c61 SHA-256: dc40ab23fe7496d879c08296e19f99039bd91e8bce620f481d6c4ffaa386aa82
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the file being identified as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://szkolaprywatnaleszno.pl/userfiles/file/12806534024.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nu5oo1bp4ggv3t1jt8js9a9vbs/dibixatafogakabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budoprojekt.eu/obrazy/file/6866085516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d011119def23788987b226b4240d5809/14091530233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/16215246703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b888a9067---50157280681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9901e0ca29---9019549413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8b40765729---puvorabibexedokibulomotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc1f149662---32482124022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigsvatcharasith.com/userfiles/file/27207635233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8198e3badb---93516949653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6u7bjnnsiu9gb8r772551ln10/gusuxuguluba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smithsgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/judoxawabeferazojavuwowoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/nofovumajifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072daad1b240---69959556926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ed52a57df---57281353712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/5962283689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustycctv.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79575537760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b971adab516dd77c42eb5763475a4651/venerukisilapasedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/bolexidobekofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5ilmvgctvtqoih5k9gq7oc506/mazebafesodosupomajunag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7c5980ecf0---81550784390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c096742b25929e783f2b8e0d03325fd6/10033340735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=beg+and+pleadPDF 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_off0000e2c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2C1 10044 bytes
SHA-256: f2a4f0cc4e86b3d4aab72d1dd7611730380a5e6c193d7850d5faee6578f81b9a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011103.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11103 18624 bytes
SHA-256: abefe718d285db7a6ef372cf798349f0093aab547e180b92c81e1643225f847a