Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0085436283e6293…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-06-20 01:57:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: d945cd1ed3b5f39b0abd20fbda46fb78 SHA-1: 23b6b6dc5000345dd2efc16ac67b19b0aa403dd1 SHA-256: f0085436283e62930df6bf23c1f50b1322840c07db428bf7b60f9256408718dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be a lure, possibly related to recipes, to trick users into clicking the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ol3dq9p9af7ckj8h2e82t5rkb4/41995286581.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke178b8jq59jbojqdl7olt9dfe/zekalenunosexigaralutovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/8293799021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ab2fa29a8feca38860d66303bf8429a/27418578339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/96550381008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2fd78083277a38a41a98935b1f0afa1/62623589076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/povulorowusogilemot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096eb161b607---gikixawowev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/foxojozogiwetetutid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcpqdnhrnci95s5rmd1eu4p491/77277702778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ch1oeam0a38iq0ldara2llq8f/85086347052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/kelebekazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcceb0b2f1---linonakaxumofigoxosulase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f649ru80hl3rf53dpnnj7dppds/gavixofirijawezawesaxawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rc187kequq3cntfnq28je3t38/nokafetubuzijivuwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5t95l5dfc2hgkakja9897uld7p/62065526932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=pork+shoulder+roast+in+convection+oven+recipePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dcda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCDA 5288 bytes
SHA-256: ba58afffeb42ce4021378353c233caa382372ed2bd7a3f116bff3892d79e75ea
font_01_sfnt_off0000eed7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED7 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 45418fda746a7e18742e93a4bee1e94f40b1b1a79613b80e539d65bd5dc1afd1