Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dea4244bba6d5788…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 01:20:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6cea77cd07655b774ae20abd19ca8334 SHA-1: d8ad97982a52e2c4735e0f64c5fa459481db1b94 SHA-256: dea4244bba6d578868c3f976bf4efc1464b7d9a5a255c482bf6fd066220d3d4f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL targets are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://chinahongji.com/d/files/19591411040.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f89dd159e63ad332784a1a931b122dd7/72624947356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fertilityupdates.com/userfiles/files/favomapenoguzewibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/zazerawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calmoinc.com/upload/editor/file/95279683586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/12808044110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd74a483fd---lujimisufeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad959a5fde8f45b7278c82f303e7da96/pomabekonoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gertiesbloomers.com/kousumi/nulook/upload/fckimages/file/77370867286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/143627058260c07c00099cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f57a88f4c---zegogitujolusuros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/57416724911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f4cced479---304275474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc5f24b72c---siledoxoxitixavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926c485bec9---1015915879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszskiba.com/userfiles/file/rukifopexonidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/427aedef31a2253b0c64bd9cb4307e17/51338626473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamatudarbai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muniwapolomozetasemilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tfiiol8q5rcelb6o2e08n9iee1/62016908622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd5b435566---fipitonip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akssert.com/userfiles/files/dafedejamelubulelepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/429b796ace2af0b3be542044c2ee83d3/fefuxajufamepige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f6dfbc1d6---mamoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99b1dd8e10---99034400763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/vixavelawetovebika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c838a22a9796a4284d76a0c309473d5/kitigazojoravilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i7bihmjj76p519q5po3357r9io/gakudubefopozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=my+astrology+signPDF 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_off0000f4fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FC 16912 bytes
SHA-256: cbfc95a61e812c92f31d7d1cc745c8625c493b4da95ddf5ca7874cb178616f99
font_01_sfnt_off000120e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120E5 10256 bytes
SHA-256: a2fac38308e9c2c181272e9db7a1cff0cd81901e8d0868505ca50f90d3ab70ab
font_02_sfnt_off00013812.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13812 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1