Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f587d91190268c3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-07-17 08:08:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7604896ef26572029fb619c37add98b1 SHA-1: 18231137284dcf3231175ac04c26900a0868c9de SHA-256: f587d91190268c3e4b902f2ec467a75d637f82b7ea1f3877930858579d25851e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs clearly show a link farm pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b9d835e9e---18789625602.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.micron21.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rebusupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detikakdeti.ru/img/file/kepazosiwimazakavixin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073593d4e733---89229360747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowa-architekci.pl/userfiles/files/41537566328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/46130082731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggmn1gvuj26h7o95m1emcegtjj/3228877947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephlillianmorrisfamily.com/clients/59960/File/73363333889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uq8m40e9q2l2e4ou7gi3e3plgh/wetoxipole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90cp05r8rgrt7aad3t582q8o94/sabelasusofutiranesedev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607cc309acfe4---85146106616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myflora888.com/ck_files/files/40094616866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db0d3fa9540---baramonevezuxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d85fa1164---84083275340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/16035273621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/nodunixariliwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3514ef00756f95dd7be21928c93f2bf4/sowipixavufefudakepisej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5861544000---43968784138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemonova.com/FCKeditor/file/jonadazolanobidora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc502cc7a9---81039105971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ccbe61fae---buvanakafiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecormier-menuiserie.com/www/upload/files/rifawixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=barney+in+outer+space+1998PDF 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_off0000c00f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC00F 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 3b7b127b03303ba583179dd69aa62654aaeb2290f0785df29b3ed863b1d71d79
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9EF 16396 bytes
SHA-256: c3b7f0ff9829276e3894cc38cb869bd0a969c6816ed4695d4f1f267f4741c206
font_02_sfnt_off0001041a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1041A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1