Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 157b696c5508c070…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-26 16:55:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 78e8ceae3bdd11876ae88410ab22c342 SHA-1: 200cf4298ded43f580a7f99983a6d2e3fe01174a SHA-256: 157b696c5508c070ed7365c2bf6b982b4ce7fcd68d37c02f2f1a85c756c831af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099eb2121e50---37343692283.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ruuhski86o1o0tm40ok7kureg/32971590152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/45203310254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e0ccf8eda1ab408c526f763e8c5b456/43883006157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiuxingchaoshi.com/uploads/file/090957473751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/st00en0f6i79v7pdpjgquab3o7/ruxoduveworezevironu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/debututoxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhsclassof63.com/clients/c/c8/c8cc7cee7579ddcd469b669c0eb172d8/File/gofakazexuguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/bivezatolapefodedowibaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c852cee8c92---nawewoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7df92cb0bb76be4bc4322d901cd5135f/29758663000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharadsangam.org/UserFilesTwo/file/getazifinaremevifej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candemdientu.com/Images_upload/files/82669784361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cottoneauto.it/userfiles/files/30242875853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjalikave.hu/pictures/file/xoxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/tonilikibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/nusapaxajevewasigivepixip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088276a119db---liwukefodafupuvojeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/23545667162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/jekepudatisapexutabexid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaloffice.pl/fotki/file/diwizoxevibifopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dba98709f9be61ef0c157cb2c526fb9/74938169278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b844ddfc52f2cb843fcf3a10605360bd/gezunuzafurupufirabif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609928dd801a3---11654188364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=line+ranger+mod+apk+unlimited+rubyPDF 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_off0000f581.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF581 17788 bytes
SHA-256: dc4bc5d538ca9c000488201485c0f93c8798cf55a00b086af01bfc0d6413d410
font_01_sfnt_off00012364.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12364 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B7B 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 202e0b6ef70ff5059c29a86577f705254a9d4733ab655a3c2590052ff6638836