Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed57909cd42b7680…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-24 01:34:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d0beeac0aa4ebcca6de00787abcf52f8 SHA-1: 92718678bf1524a373f801fcaefdaa8ef9fc9387 SHA-256: ed57909cd42b768021448177cde976ff3f513d3e918cce9593e80799accd2d78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm directing to multiple URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5038vj5spq5v32a0j6mbo4tue5/49604729260.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca520db3cd---80818895256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/97417779525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namratalakhotia.com/userfiles/files/fujorukatarufujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stressmanagement-karriere.de/userfiles/file/vajekakiwotis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d8260579d---16674722427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b20216ece3a578128b231ff8bcf08fb1/tumiropemipulozigum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmar-e.de/userfiles/file/jedokuganimotuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alibabaoman.com/basefile/alibabaomancom/files/goruka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d774c43e4---vutedoxuzigilobadatudeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepsforstarlight.com/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/31406872984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087977b050a4---98824371395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c99af6b409---xawekude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/11494509781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/vinatasobubonod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquatherm-graz.at/files/gokesudapozaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelvista.lt/images/files/61657432931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609207af2399a---sibogalugadowixajinejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stpatricksreunion.com/clients/84553/File/4733526514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hit-air.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jutiputerijodipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dges.in/userfiles/file/turok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ci0h9l9pbkupk8stielbrm1r1/91697796468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4hpfamebgnan7nn69sbd1l0jp/sozadozobosodatazubige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debsluxe.com/clients/1/17/174397649ed9f07baa8f9d9f48c72a4d/File/soxajadomusurotafuvujepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec8249738f---zosozesex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d35f8271c18---10162647263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=area+and+perimeter+of+irregular+shapes+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000f1a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A7 16968 bytes
SHA-256: ab8c28587b908c53cfb367c23d7edbe3b12cffb66bece6cc4d5afeb156a6259a
font_01_sfnt_off00011e39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E39 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 68d699559547d2ae803a89b1064f3efc0bc827a13e065ec6c7dd7e4b0026272b
font_02_sfnt_off00013819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13819 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1