Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3f6e98879430761…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:23:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 414994e67072dc66f5ad685f66460dae SHA-1: e0808ab96bfb06471d9a441a66bd85cd945ba920 SHA-256: f3f6e9887943076198fd19a277f3a0cdd301acb20f3f061db8bb8404045f795e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing page or malware download. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/526efa319421e12a3cf1ce79a9048fb7/29942668983.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/202161441715714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa539afe47aca2c7406daf6b8d4038eb/10697729106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/sojuxozezojuzogixafumew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuzuxolanodusisokebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/60025692178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8270e4ba2d191b844aba515e97827679/sazukezogitoserupojatima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97ca51b1fb---37862428568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083edea063c4---52684917211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/kukafilivivojapulames.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a0b8cbdf2e---33968756589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8b155f5cfad370909a33aea1ef5a775/vuriwujukilamadukumewaliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/bisebeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/nazotupuvuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a230b19b8d1f1a0d91b1112a2f3de36/74958401600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daae1ce2b21fe847474ad4afc08891d7/35206015077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ptl19igr01h1keesb639rkpm5/riropupezorumije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0uddhheredbuk9psigc9sfut5b/378171181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58794182710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a99d92358ede5486a8aa180b123a9a4a/13518404873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/2896132503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magazinul-de-instalatii-sanitare.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/gozamuxoxorufajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/denegexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bcbb5148b3---dovelulagikulinexaxoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevelascofamily.com/clients/11614/File/magakazavoxuxipexeloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=2019+global+construction+costs+yearbook+pdfPDF 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_off0000ea25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001023c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1023C 11608 bytes
SHA-256: 2f46de25567d8c3d412b49d9b41b57414452c8f4e7bf68b9829fbf51952504ac
font_02_sfnt_off00011da6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA6 17676 bytes
SHA-256: eee6b2ee8ff41085fef46798e857a1a80b2b05e542a81eec667b29b50bb57e30