Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 deb715f1307095e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 07:13:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1ff90615b6013bc3a78443d9f24e9328 SHA-1: 76a82b1348738ece295e9f5fc87cfca285df1462 SHA-256: deb715f1307095e1340e843711bc37a112ca53380ec17d63f543e2f21f8c7dc2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable or compromised hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination, likely a phishing or malware distribution site.

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://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857df5a5e3a---28459606715.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084783128faf---94611170111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4129db816ae452aa303c260b8ef761ff/19759391907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9lkv4och8cv8fgj3fm46otmnof/fefiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphaconsultinggroup.us/vpw/images/file/xiwawuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f28cde477b---rutobubup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/55141870055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/630826e17bd3a01a940ab2cff099aef3/puvudojimivogedatawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/7274223783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/84187767558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callalilyvn.com/upload/files/lejobipafomopisejovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5md4pj8ucfftlabs6av8o6adm/farikeworujoloro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/33288911448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsmstlucia.com/atomicsteps/upload/userfiles/file/fusorabumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/13843086868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8662a9b56---vivopazinunudegufiweba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/nuxivufusage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae1069cb7992c394b1226e6ae43786b8/rexatopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e83190565---bexabenibiwikudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/557795d23eaceb65e14fcef99e9a26b3/kipiveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/def45ab9e64a71d10f4bcd33a10b48d5/68351388288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e415102c4d---84113594837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/pakulusosexamuzukinunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65336864129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abdebb3b4fb8cc1aab4e27797a14ee32/96904983216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=japan+xl+size+to+usPDF 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_off0000f37b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF37B 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 904755c7bfa539e441c01c5e8f61451e8b460aa66fa4c83ecab52bf3de78e88b
font_01_sfnt_off00010b37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B37 16964 bytes
SHA-256: ab74ccec67ffaf02c0afc96751d90d1891fc7d3f37c0b1434151fc9499e3e3b9
font_02_sfnt_off0001378b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1378B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1