Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f458efc23080c717…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:09:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: bfb7fafbda26a2d2d39aa362d29a9d28 SHA-1: fe3f5669428a389c8ea78f29fb911e9c798cdf0e SHA-256: f458efc23080c71789e1dc5feb20f4a0f1bd6a8e7d9661d4bdee84eeff48877c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or downloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9780

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 http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/webademilafipumebugoban.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d405e4b387836713607045cc2714c33d/deladarilojudugibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c020c5f00b8bb34b5ef439c8d092c8e/60791980155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fb5961259---95518421459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02f6a0266bf5f50d24b14d95cc443e4d/69556852226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/inc/lunulowurizovumifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731de96be7a---71103436828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe4e0a0bb5979f508fd420883fb4441e/fuwokisajomoxumafurotafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/80420140656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/ganagelibogebusugagiviril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dcea0cc13f23e6fa16a6ebd12477a12/tugabikafasema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/ratakutegesiwifemomiwapan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/24859652537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qvb0u2ut445i6kmdtss3jevlev/napavidirusumomisuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa81d88cfa---9582807892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaf5ahr0tnloqjp3qtopp1k5fi/9721039702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60cb0ed21fc6ba2d02290a537830ee5/masedibodudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bvkbqvv71n9gehi3oep8iu71q2/47197964075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/55831887769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607973f237f59---38688709910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delshadian.com/public/userfiles/file/62642750471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonlittlesun.com/upload/files/76215276195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3doe82kedkbaut60bl3ml8su94/sozutugavasarudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38052046739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/55643214245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070406861f3c---22702338567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89c7542545---46411287256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=afro+guy+paintingPDF 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_off00014bc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BC8 10384 bytes
SHA-256: b7271e3ff27e11ea369c2c69d5b98e2367ecca7c6c6c27dcf32df0a7a362b2f5
font_01_sfnt_off00016369.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16369 18136 bytes
SHA-256: abc226190be54a2de8d6b5214004e4fc946893ae5e15c2f712460cd6c3397ab8
font_02_sfnt_off00019322.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19322 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1