Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 108f5859ed660891…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-08 06:51:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8074d04cc8a42f6ab2d97ab0386fd9b9 SHA-1: a081020ff3cce5bea58a524bd6420c7fd40ced67 SHA-256: 108f5859ed660891b566c358e8ec82a787927b366e0da62dd8f6fa009446d87a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress upload directories. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, some pointing to potentially malicious content, supports the classification as a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfed2d9d40b---xepimidobavawirus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46e23e5c5c46e48ee1cc1857569e588d/551907815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921a4622aee---jemox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d7edb15a1---bapebuxemomepuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elazentrale.de/images/uploaded/file/jobowajufitewukeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/kigizepivanupuropevawukez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078881d2254f---nuramenejafudejone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letsbelegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tevezudenavegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83p8n21u2uls9au8n8rem3k080/kuwivedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2219aadeaf9638112d468f6f9659e682/87669618041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/letokafibatuputosumidigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/90884841591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/30293904249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abbbef7e57c---34046044517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slstudio.it/userfiles/files/rugezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///855359659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/saq6oos7vqg0lkf3tqauurfgk6/kofok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da7c20f06f---fukulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607437fa173b4---3328085641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webvitamin.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/bozaxamifubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nigu0osfv70fetqpbjns71b2u5/1169925980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078aaff1aa59---2755379349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6af257b50---21968794757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ficsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omjj2e54r4don136reepc6m3tg/kinulujadibesexino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+often+does+a+cow+fartPDF 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_off0000fb3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3F 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 66c3156925a83419a445b79716c2b3a0d9817d7629fd73944581ea0515a0f822
font_01_sfnt_off00011302.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11302 17672 bytes
SHA-256: 01186cb1d0a0d1d040122d3bd77fd55c841f05d58a33b4df764e333e430a30c7
font_02_sfnt_off00014166.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14166 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1