Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f904c17f6772a63b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 15:22:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 53fc276dd083ca065572c895e002aa4b SHA-1: d13c8f264d2c9697426590856599dcfcba998637 SHA-256: f904c17f6772a63bf6c5aed5645422a9a0b3821b849c031e7be64e77c3a8d900
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which host other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jjbflf5ghtc5b58jb7hn73bui5/wemedinurikosur.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maternites-catholiques.org/ressource/site-image/files/biwolorubepujatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5a3019b35---95780066887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1f1d5bd5ae5cf1bb3019c3ccce67bed/xezeloluruxanafoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872ce5ccf2f---29181695276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e7212610eb---buniroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/45475790174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba40b01335c---pazujuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ee087808b---bewuzuzuderositat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba33c4b083e---bukalanabobofugoromaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/61923576648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/42917256718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o2opr.co/userfiles/files/3783808432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografiafrancescosomma.com/userfiles/files/77367243499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d5467a037cb634e892f5a31d98f0c77/japumuwomatat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jessie.vn/images/ckeditor/files/94351710271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://italvaping.com/file/xibekawijelaxeputugevevuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b6f629690---6937026382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushigonewildtogo.com/uploads/files/fokuxife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca94124f69---67153029810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/sebowekowofatabasuwigok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bace498f28a---tikekadewukusarodogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94c6310917476da29998b2f6ede5ceba/30610562620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=when+can+i+start+walking+on+my+sprained+anklePDF 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_off0000e8c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C7 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 082b31f465ca249649b59df8eaa9e5b478e7a5091ae82f0695d52f3c5d12d045
font_01_sfnt_off000102d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102D3 17016 bytes
SHA-256: e02bc01f95947c1005449be7e965113e39e1712bbe1046673cae1cbfadefcacd
font_02_sfnt_off00012f59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1