Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b6bdac26fbad420…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB Created: 2021-08-20 15:08:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: eb32c53b19b29ad698c4655a0a03f9e2 SHA-1: 2764592cfe6fea8f54deae093c9595476cc81adc SHA-256: 1b6bdac26fbad420b2d87d84d648ae0cfdddf543dc3e87a36fefd94cb5c8b3d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely used to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The PDF structure itself is also indicative of a link farm, a common tactic for distributing malware or facilitating phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/63529181519.pdf
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082365b9ef5f---gevodasomamakute.pdf
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/33911296909.pdf
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da345b8913---28706616039.pdf
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/979f6777c67ca919f9b2aaefdb74e754/latamema.pdf
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/rogoza.pdf
    • https://torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/11382583120.pdf
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents//files/weboseveruposesodovovolus.pdf
    • http://heureka-cz.eu/files/9488985028.pdf
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5332d597f4d92b4553277cc0d7c372e3/99403110631.pdf
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210802125314.pdf
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75c4ae8ac2---55175022052.pdf
    • http://davisfolk.net/clients/1/1f/1f1070e31f35868a9a13f38ee7dc887f/File/sumuzok.pdf
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/225235075022b24b89d05a1ef4d5e726/63898928046.pdf
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ec56ba172f5c9a2e4094a6eeda51b16/66130884450.pdf
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed68026015---61954354265.pdf
    • http://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/89354647054.pdf
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/70119390419.pdf
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/87091324199.pdf
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fbe5611c046c996f15163bb56e300c7/67506705014.pdf
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210501131445.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b432641a8---10505539163.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=exercicios+potencia%C3%A7%C3%A3o+9+ano+com+gabarito
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011989.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11989 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001319b.bin
0198ee6cdf104a39421c050981f0e3e2b0b854d0b2c85a8e1938b42c75200e34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1319B 22216 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000166c1.bin
ff062d8fe58a9bf384883621cd32f4c149b595c07cbde84965c78bbcdb98b5b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166C1 11528 bytes