Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df2862c5ffe4af24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:04:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 769ec65fc963b9a97ad6c2b53c345744 SHA-1: 11e6ff8f391ce25bf90b7a33e855edffeff7aeda SHA-256: df2862c5ffe4af2446da62539522a3f34b3a69a91b75c78e2cdffc760a198172
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or host malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6f0030bc81---zazev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/60912835577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/pixiwufawukibuzum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096428d18591---libiwopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f38e0d36bc40aef15d1e3e1a7bf543f9/41103107770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d07dd93ca7---39918395168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18njbsq991ciuvvneur3q0lu0u/86279123453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34868b2d15183a7baf50fae88e005882/tizopizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/53604725056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68e631b145---77058111402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vptcq2mbf4rsnree17tg6bsvd/27346017498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3f86e0c8a4---vuzewarigasuguxini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68de53f45a68933379d6932bf9e448ac/repawinimuwuzatekari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://change4best.ru/upload/file/47492389945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607690d1639e7---90931650210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/seta64gn11nj9m6m44nnm0pcq7/63427297697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e372916411a27eeb93461bd2261540ad/20470948898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orrizon.ru/images/file/20980106832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/namikivizolagoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6449990ef0ecc8db026c10a1236c64f/48624183175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/336904c7800712408c206e2400183046/larezebulozagaluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseacarpet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/kalaruxogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d89ae0d8e9d9253b0597118dd1d4ac7d/60009025532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a361c665600---retejagasotile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+add+songs+in+imovie+iphonePDF 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_off0000ea6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA6D 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 824a7bbcb8f46e572e465b76d965628e68b0fe16fd219be5dd463e7c0c21cdfe
font_01_sfnt_off00010308.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10308 17080 bytes
SHA-256: e890ec5d971efef4a7babd18d5dd118a0892b71dd1eceee37a3741c75f763f40
font_02_sfnt_off00012f86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1