Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 def346bbf8ae8cdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

144.7 KB Created: 2021-07-05 22:47:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e0a40e3a94b7762e62d74b9a55afa4e9 SHA-1: ca123f38cc70b2d8bc20a4771b36dd0e74166e02 SHA-256: def346bbf8ae8cdb2ccaf3c0e9d927ec03ee6b6388460fd4a6e2983818069f1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URLs suggest a tactic of using compromised infrastructure to host malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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 http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a8067e801---tabojunimatinuzuvafuti.pdf
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/39098767745.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e86c6989c---62427198913.pdf
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072389ec82c4---93926736124.pdf
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7b2d5657d---fazododejigewes.pdf
    • https://ovalpolycoats.com/media/gutog.pdf
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9f4aaa82c537ec91d41ac2609f25c2e/30534439574.pdf
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b179d33857de0a36e28243e6ea0939e7/vemik.pdf
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a90aa90475d---kigadubagigubibaroxad.pdf
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/dojarikut.pdf
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/87721519979.pdf
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8acdaa7d8---69905697831.pdf
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/76541230188.pdf
    • http://cuoredicane.it/userfiles/files/62280771971.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e49fb1932---8300625860.pdf
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078eff7e342f---81963309981.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0106fabba778c353ec2800b8c370b02c/takuxisozubanakojolodof.pdf
    • http://flexicourse.cz/res/file/48967569662.pdf
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p8igat4ggqrtm15337gnuiqti3/50495100941.pdf
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/nukitazefu.pdf
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/pixazonog.pdf
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/72957819518.pdf
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/rapulejabunazupovejeka.pdf
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210522051240169.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=typhoid+treatment+course
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001cb67.bin
d3cfae0cb73aa7c4dc68e527250d40dd7d32546f58b854ad5351dbe5a9cf48ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CB67 22648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0002040c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2040C 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00021c23.bin
838872dc5cd77db938f19766180009d732098188d42a43ca9253fb3c4232a67a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21C23 10912 bytes