Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0664a3ac7377f17b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-14 10:55:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d8fd5dd2281649bcd03dd688f5d504dc SHA-1: 9f8f210c6056dce3ce2889d48f53f6afba695d40 SHA-256: 0664a3ac7377f17b09975622269799a7d21ef0f859f6d1fdc3a1e5544fba3b06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a link farm to distribute malicious files or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608304ea3d491---radanegorokesinaranowejem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa1eb437db31a459cffbcf5f6afabdc0/97940942587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/kulonekopinotudipaletipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202106/files/20210603062729240716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e044e26eee9---relipav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/felatobaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/53691269593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growyourmoney.in/userfiles/files/18552926531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/warolipok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aantfcaehjbxzf1m.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/budikodorat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095eae206792---vofabujuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd3baed3e3b---jusavaduxosebejodule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/56551225945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c79c8d03b1---zidete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/it585rio3qigj7ba0gmd3chnhg/navazagesupifofepizadig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1c04943993063962a78745df8d640c9/vifaxoxedosofefevog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd164ce7002---14288925427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/65687934519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coss-wynn-reunion.com/clients/d/db/dbe3622004495b304d8703879a486b7d/File/61647004734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/66110876304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51549304626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdabd013804ac31b82615d1402c22cfb/95108814696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=first+shiloh+missionary+baptist+churchPDF 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_off0000f6cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE4 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 7e9b9febba768bc363191d10776738300e934e7342ddc796ed865d6e46811b66
font_02_sfnt_off00012781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12781 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 8ec74973436b16429bda057de6ec7f0622ad3d34cc88902e26099830a2f16cad