Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 156918799e887cee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 00:52:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 6eae94fe2b2797aecb04a683c55710fc SHA-1: 38fc07fe5d10d45fd66823e7ac2e80bcfb27aecd SHA-256: 156918799e887cee88270c0d33840e078c5afe7daf471468f6f62ebafa1c59b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content hosted on these compromised sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/zelororopebiwebarusilisus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074344ea6819---86123156678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b27031edf---60549886641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c57e3469027b532fc599115ada27666d/xoxalumugadopamukidunileb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076580ca3ab0---sidixeguvomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc1f9af434---wejavafurarug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushiwc.com/uploads/files/62545030412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/45518902942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d012ec70c17---dutamaregurugavosuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b965caa921cf623d5ac6bb032b14e7a4/dowezug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1a6ce2f36eeebd12466e9239188028d/jowotovijadoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/81787345072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/92495852681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kd6ag605rfbnv4liju7agisec7/88700323061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/53255185929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609beed2b9b5c---76044130121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076463a13218---rudafofelogaluwezuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc975f8c409ace33245bafa299721958/80417882723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93sea9use8gbsvoe3lct6inlk0/fitikebubidularezumuvesav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromaonly1.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/93226688313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/lafanitilapotepexezelavod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dltm0nadpb7rbrie6okcipjo0r/50330969700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/kezotolijekaxikako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a891a921339---tafejuligawipevedewora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609143007a224---fejof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bracyfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/c2/c2db1a97f769835965582c74015c7782/File/kizufopudedidevavupagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bisenzia.it/userfiles/files/8110276289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=the+wind+instrumentsPDF 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_off0000f47d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF47D 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 22f9dc6e3a5522f658341e51209669dddea78252e7849a2fd749087082daeba2
font_01_sfnt_off00010bac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123BE 16776 bytes
SHA-256: b602373e051f7b4eb81d088924ecd8da44fe9a646c653d4d4a89074f438547ad