Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f54442aaddbfa8a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 23:06:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 320802025e5b5d51867cdec20b25e21f SHA-1: 86f1263e283977938a841a19824d158dfa5ae339 SHA-256: f54442aaddbfa8a321b4c9cea44870f7491ece3c4cbe8e0d5f24f4a77ea05f93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristic strongly indicate maliciousness, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites via malicious links embedded within the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4699809053.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmstad2gtvup42ssrsc2qk5u15/sexuwewokukuvofulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a6bd742e21---tezet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/0055396529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akl6bmbjpe9qd8nbhf79st54er/zugebabibami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/029944366e54d97ebb5b0c50ea082bb1/kidugutumerenodim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c6710683e---78991947201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-foundry.net/d/files/jimekovekubumubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/topevipukexul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe4b2a61b1---83952420052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b84adebfeb06b47d732c96e315bb128/surifoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3009cfadf354e1b8b77a9f9b12c21ea5/nokekiviju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9k6ejm7pv204ukef83ncktdlkv/pebigofovore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ed5e29d35---bijiluxuputevewepis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secretinvitation.net/images/files/buzuxidup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nffcd.org/userfiles/files/soxukogemanewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb2212e124e---61574360446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/ralezebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/2104553554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/kajemumunedetimetepom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb0ff73f638---49482855641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pn-tech.net/userData/board/file/48016657720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+the+word+subsequentPDF 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_off00010a22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A22 17168 bytes
SHA-256: d68d7eb1307fa127d77f56803d85d059a4db61e5f9591ace5a8ec857d930e5fc
font_01_sfnt_off000136df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014ef6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EF6 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 4448694ff65fb362ab022162e554ea4741cf321f52a2e34d546db5f3c943df64