Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f834761a97b70101…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:07:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c744a5c6016f3912bcdf9d01a54ea843 SHA-1: 0f113352b4baec87be732917a744b0360a4a1ee7 SHA-256: f834761a97b70101cbc3eacb84840260e5edc8c6da2d3222db3bfe8b2f356b11
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which likely serve as part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these link farms suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially phish users or deliver further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865caf395b8---13065803417.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2u5cpb5ehvuvtktf3cqd2m1ad/78250626909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc4247d569---fujipufetuxilelajawik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac548c235bf---pagenos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db6689830d---70486288473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db917f317c2125215b6fa10734efeb0e/7586017986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5h2ihiia72jnj5hbhs6g7sqh6/48912897695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcraregistration.com/UploadedData/file/17212169591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7e07c05ff0f1c7ffa37efb3a803e9f6/wivunuwasunemap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b82f43ce79---32931448652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tramtronbetong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/28527154316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanbonvbm.com/upload/files/46391030307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0q9u0i5ahopfe7cnf7h33fk7e6/jigexijedobiwasedavomose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105160000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaness-sens.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77727483229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowagon.it/userfiles/files/pevetoluxolimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/35467479152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/45777217572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmtours.si/uploads/87812250203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613049b9aee40---43656403153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31571139583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wulotodop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/kipofepuwukexejaras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f02ucdlarhnb84045aad2el28/domatasibolafene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=drinking+water+treatment+plant+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_off0001248b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1248B 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 590ced45c2974fc0173a0a91cf53f3c31760cfee50c3847f267127e178742ddf
font_01_sfnt_off00013cfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CFB 18572 bytes
SHA-256: 5a5ff52642bb8ad0da1182b1a789bc9da640d400f490bcedd116aa11900cde06
font_02_sfnt_off00016c27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1