Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd198a53b346960a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-08-13 03:35:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1b4d16726fd369b4ece81cf456b4db66 SHA-1: 1d390e7955882ff9dfd420463bf17c44397e6a53 SHA-256: dd198a53b346960a3ffd87ffca3a7e80e47716635de9716cc2fb443072c284fd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The embedded JavaScript stream and the nature of the URLs suggest a phishing or redirection attempt. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b345c0f46f37c67acab8784ad0aef884/vafabozag.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/16478395569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-7///202172454441341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986446585e9---12364475054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2gkgcb1gnitu5ju088bkoo6nr/51279149277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4882e55424a97e3834a46feda97e330/sukurumewabofigovamimezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7b0d59c18---zerenodesevelewur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/459fee2937585942cba7b6138ac0423d/simed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/namob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/sedatexobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3hamvl657rhats50rc7fg438q8/zideni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a327de707---fuzewibudonuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rapisinuzoneneruroxugumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32171476541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6361c98c5---77172109915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/52554771504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3oggm7tos19pgb2d72eiqbvca1/91914650794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5fa919db1---matuvopemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0eef306998a2cf5693a66e1d6ddd58d/47393028218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/meneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08d80ef6d534bed3218df4be3eb67dab/889516792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mananthavadynorbertines.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nigeten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=weed+firm+2+cheats+apkPDF 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_off0000ce63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e67a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE67A 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 867f7a52b8dc3326c7197446fc55ced33f89959a593b312bc9a6913deca46dd0
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF82 16800 bytes
SHA-256: 07804948991673415dd90dbef58998af9a2be13bff50b2853e7ab7f59c89a6b7