Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e644c7bf41eef573…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-08-17 23:50:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8425fe9fea456de9e8cf819efd83e4f8 SHA-1: 94672f6dfcd1033d7b521696bde79e035034823b SHA-256: e644c7bf41eef5735ac965c6ef7aa2bb8fc93701570cf300334db5363f84e213
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports the classification of this file as malicious, likely used in a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d47e0b1698b---9446675755.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072476302f51---timipuwezakijupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.smartfutureexpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pajegedoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archissimo.eu/userfiles/files/xikitigapagubojaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonmeadows.org/userimages/rivosibenibavibuduvino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epicridesnepal.com/files/73841947596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982a4d1c04d---21282245283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tms-operation.com/upload/files/dojoled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahamianbrewery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55067703099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5d58a4347f---zibobip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/19150044479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/30292593820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fda47bf00095698f5de479c26624c239/12756593943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/gomugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926d7a02bd5---31712665468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emrc.ie/upload/imagecontent/file/xikurikimudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed8dc300fd9eebfe9e6b913af1a3f54c/16619140043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbcasc.net/imgs/file/85081105205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mishelik.ru/userfiles/file/47844795603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gt-outillages.fr/ressource/site-image/files/wevubamefonikijivobaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/19257423916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibiforstarlight.org/clients/3/3c/3cfcca4e360ca8807b7dd7d6e7cbeae0/File/pasaguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf7e70e3732---16098227277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc82d3345b8---lejagar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/40410809620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+spark+post+mod+apk+rexdlPDF 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_off0000dcc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D8 10672 bytes
SHA-256: fc0c4d4cdd80c99687fae849888891b6cec38c53d59edd5ced2ac70f617eee1e
font_02_sfnt_off00010d29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D29 22964 bytes
SHA-256: 100794bc290da970730742af121bf0f2e468a7ddab511f5856afa09efc5f7564