Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f109f52b6b57c96d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.6 KB Created: 2021-07-22 01:56:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 03b794f9fbe26742e85c77d4dabd6469 SHA-1: dc3c4e33b26b28e62e262e50697570c40b45b9e3 SHA-256: f109f52b6b57c96d3811c7b35974bb349d3e20abae704b59e554bb871141e37f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9878

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://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9422b9be3192a94c9002375ae369c73a/91353917862.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ea76a55d74af545769726b73a1630d9/51249178423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791fc80bb0c---95306610148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/85283394921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20904b5dd8---dalufegevogomasifopew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66aa7c811617896d3f4b01ec748e1011/97663954672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/13306476064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77d316de6a---7153224365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njuhome.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99400987387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf78b6983ef---zuriwutivemisojez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/99374296971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleel.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43gi11usniqd7a5so8e8vn0ii2/wogejezawikigowupizenugan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/67973091818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b6411e6e5---97849257430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5f78183afc---97704769009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce872c544fedc6bb615ddfc984636368/lasujadawif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nklia8usv3e9bmhfgo6d1f5r3g/pezusalebuwibigasubaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608409924a7fd---19258307461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609439d732607---xazabodoxibulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/gotozumevavupimeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609045cf60fe4---70448201870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609471bdebed9---66157655420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/65005167402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carriewoodfamily.com/clients/5/5b/5b9f2fb360c4065436fb7fe1267c3612/File/pofog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/99802155076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=ccna+chapter+5+answersPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cda0afa0b3f1c2433f5d4673f8a1851e/rijopatisurabaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00012bbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BBF 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 6ae5d2456ce55d5bd96cfdc49617aa7a11857234c79361be328a481572597640
font_01_sfnt_off00014397.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14397 16768 bytes
SHA-256: 45dc4db8eb14bcb6d22a6e6e37f138012e6272ac9fa7cf1c08a3059a97ad9e74
font_02_sfnt_off00016f68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1