Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3578ab55ed593c4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-06-09 07:11:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ad8e852dd841ba7b3917c73ed66be3cd SHA-1: f958e3f2768d1ab02cd56000ebea2a78520114e7 SHA-256: 3578ab55ed593c4f71178d8e52351c82b670345d652ca26ee9bb69f91f203a5c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=certificate+design+template+word
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883a3dcb61c---4365035957.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7a3300675---57525655857.pdf
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7c71037c1---baxokovelaremananowiwub.pdf
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be2a3acd312---94975269099.pdf
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/41134617525.pdf
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608769bd01810---32902306603.pdf
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/773995db7d068dd6b72aad95d58f1270/xabow.pdf
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89509b23474e5c2232a772b7b54c54e6/girekekavajukigozuz.pdf
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46102338432d1a69f735fb0ed1394a35/pixetijusubopokilepu.pdf
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd45g0mgq345qhi7h3kbfqdt1k/14029678966.pdf
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05cab87190---42307638881.pdf
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608317793e31a---51225223469.pdf
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d21546dd88---65526249889.pdf
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/20878023939.pdf
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efc8ob2svfonha1go5cmh29js2/35444334249.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d534.bin
576ae616f27f1260596afbeeb27eb87c747ba802173355702d354d6b5ab0c7f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD534 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7c7.bin
f7802aad1716aa4a3c78289c5898214c269385f53588eb23a8c4d76383891df5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7C7 10040 bytes