Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 171a6d8a4d5f6f28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-19 17:58:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 43c8ff649c16cf01dcca5d0f74e80278 SHA-1: 3e629730fb76e8f979a1b95a3737501b3a5e56fe SHA-256: 171a6d8a4d5f6f2851754b5ba01f2665c31454caf9a87a838d7a4ce3f506f852
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this phishing or malware distribution vector.

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 https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6a1de9144---zibomegokogosobitisulonip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/jezevolemowezenexapapilad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed0b88612d6bc892b1229b613f25f755/gumumivedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newdimension.su/userfiles/file/bupaxovowivozojigom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horlickhigh61.com/clients/a/ab/ab3fb267cc30d45b98f460a20cee0b8d/File/40604843025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a335a7acd7b---devixago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-sat.cz/userfiles/file/77438114666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/37097984123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25736333842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72b054e3af97caaec2f024fc7eee1907/58099094256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasleemdubai.com/userfiles/files/90544519763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/75726340002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong.info/userfiles/file/wibekipulisujovenuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c507f2925049c4de6ad905b1ab61c9d/xufuberadijewekas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tafoto.de/img/upload/files/77276819266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alteanetworks.fr/img/file/18314812560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/886530094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://au-zlato.sk/upload/files/44748429503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/kiwitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/986299fc5735dcec246543df2b5d5788/fidenavifezipivokowufela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapoom.com/upload/fckeditor/file/44350967283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817789ab683---bemanobutosajosena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/gekujojotuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/jutemamizude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+beat+the+lunatic+cultistPDF 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_off0000f3b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BC9 18440 bytes
SHA-256: 91597f5263c23094c32cb376ed78adb7c4c385192f659920be9cc3bf9ee5ac41
font_02_sfnt_off00013ca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CA1 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 61c71df921130febb8d93822e7d7df4658633a9a67963f5ec0813d37bd32c5d4