Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f092964dbe6d8481…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-07-17 05:15:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 57c969a2316302452511bc9ea1e0ad66 SHA-1: d6e3035d8a6ea080053cc2797792ceffc69079bf SHA-256: f092964dbe6d848185514194bc191bcd167ba491705f06ce84b3fa85577acd39
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to malicious links hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pn9vp0argktih8d7bjiov2gfck/jobosonaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210530011255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rfa6dtdnj5g562cd1piiqlaf4k/85541786569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c6bcd919a724ede9e3861527184050d/44545083027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99bd27258c---50818756146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c557153b728aa356bd39d404a282166/5849508948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021051610351939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adcec19cc2e020e7a213a7181b15d536/33898169355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbabd3e97a---13281209339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laps.pl/userfiles/file/venituje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euredit-editions.com/userfiles/file/tosun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909cff8ad46---sepikuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210629094151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa8d49bc49b1b8c6e6923e9b89b65dc8/sixorasarunevupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7q9r9luo4qbiat4epsmjg3bcai/63829060653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c74b64491d687fbb249746be68321b8b/74839317370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/36344291296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/wutanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/faxigarovabagotupuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfk7q7b90s9hrmaak0h0qmttm4/najiwedufisorupomifafaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c58d220f8ad---62241723310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/39630578108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydala.com/userfiles/file/4171152896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e14bde977---liredejodexifuvufivoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=hot+toddy+recipe+for+coldPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010284.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10284 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_02_sfnt_off000117ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CA 10284 bytes
SHA-256: bc4bb9e28dd92a1c88d235f70a59545a6ffd80a014dac3c8768a3cad3fab7805
font_03_sfnt_off00012ef8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EF8 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 68a06fa4c72d52a02c57a91e91f43662570f2dd573d73aeff552ed96ffedaab0