Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f950e30aeb8fde70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.6 KB Created: 2021-07-16 03:12:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: ca90b6f7b6af439b42d3751ac86b1c61 SHA-1: 06d793576d6ae124afc9e5c9acbf875554904483 SHA-256: f950e30aeb8fde703ee4b2deafe8a0c6fc318398e74af0a78f567024dbd34d7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads, supports the conclusion that this document is designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0acda4abb44cb136178061ad36271ff4/10560068404.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0a1f66c32---70531768467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0bcef3c34---nebolezonepezusipil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5fm4g45voffut184ecc2ckct4/70616823708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbb3b4c6c097629982f5d322e35d3b08/sofibiwaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9de6986841a4754bdbd128ef0a85d00d/59480369927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec075ec8d3---zapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zaluziemalina.cz/userfiles/file/96808203581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/13102086361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f000a2eeba82ea67fc0e57b51c601040/19547683982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-6///2021628216545943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a0f4de58067---wokedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/707ad4e5c962751a9eb4b2176b5bc493/xibasazazojirakozuxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ac6d6fb1bbbe488c71f515a8afdeee8/xebupadapugopusisedubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc21e00d60---65423154041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f6c2f13f1---fureji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/77834218968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oppedisanorobertosrl.com/userfiles/files/vifugoradufumosesomemefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/67810380428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be017a19c8e---9167388254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710f7ec7ff4---jokabotoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5fea4809d---bosukeritinekex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=star+wars+tag+and+binkPDF 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_off000131ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131BA 10520 bytes
SHA-256: c274d484580b9fdb52d21cc9174a2f4b552fe3615c70d36728a9659d62d3b26e
font_01_sfnt_off00014994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14994 18288 bytes
SHA-256: 83c7863ef2e609e5d5e93ce680283e0fff51700f4849de96a8c001db50cf6723
font_02_sfnt_off0001794c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1794C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1