Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f231620f083fb8fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 21:04:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 175c5b2de12324a0dc7922e551dd090d SHA-1: be7ec370a76dfe3be381d8fd82bf9a6be20acaec SHA-256: f231620f083fb8faa1384ac55fd2d78c6bcacc452a210722ac62c91e59c50727
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and other potentially disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis confirm a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/gugoreduka.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46b0222e5b---ganotowifetajenazinipugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff43e656feaa09e1780112d8d709a18b/nelalisotutijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/telunileponiwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66800c1be3---10835209967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srvpuniq8i6addm71gi63h6aeg/656125220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccd104174b---jiraterutagoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangphong.vn/uploads/image/files/nupuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dugigatodurifovokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/44698835957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a40893785dd---62981563087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22e28cd3b7---tibimidamizekoleburizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/42926018534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24b2a30c13b67fa0c00af76f65e03823/duretagakaberagak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainbowcaterers.in/userfiles/file/dunixotukasazubisabubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/316b93e874f4c534c645898b316b1600/fexogad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/simufogogiboseveted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/verugudototironedujotub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/tujaxidolelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3536786617---kisorawulufelewizavina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b971f2ea87c400813ec8c264606b1dc/ripusitiwiwevebebegoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/55529492229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agapetown.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xenamutelinerilupodiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://craftsmancuttingdies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/466148a007254d1ff0dec46eca7467c6/77600121223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=beaufort+scale+11PDF 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_off00010217.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10217 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A2E 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 463e06a1126f890365904dc698bc878b1ec7f7c20c4e47f5c8ed3c1f031b0069
font_02_sfnt_off000131c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131C3 19168 bytes
SHA-256: b39528d1d43757551d84b8d1a32737229189c1fe1c62e9abebd1ee5b75f1bf22