Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5103f6675c618845…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-19 10:24:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7d016ab363b280321493381730617c94 SHA-1: 12db89860c4b8ca3b35898e1a8ba41da55f69946 SHA-256: 5103f6675c618845ff3e89de9704de2b54923acda403f51dad40923449ed816e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other malicious PDFs. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute further malware or phishing content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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/160e4049db88cf---ritonotisejikuwuviril.pdf
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ae4bded780c8ae7d60add2af03abc52/tapesoguxurixabizepu.pdf
    • http://pallenberg-busreisen.de/uploads/files/lizojijovamubepodugis.pdf
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874cd00befd---pagisufa.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a373338812c---15879126343.pdf
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa954207dfd---25419078135.pdf
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0b84437e9df6d2a095a4d63448f7595/livemoloburog.pdf
    • http://sonsuadogo.org/Images_upload/files/13905600299.pdf
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/29112687372.pdf
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be9c06264b1---zuvofego.pdf
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/45274056427.pdf
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/13645236058.pdf
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f55b9ac20e95ae4c83dc17e3baed463/61636377727.pdf
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607234abc244a---xudoka.pdf
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bf0b3fe37---bobubopur.pdf
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/kogabigez.pdf
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a1d268e91---74013309314.pdf
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iq1mbvpkabgs15que1pf25lbeo/52724746660.pdf
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eee388dba73bab518ff7b84bee9b97b1/pufaj.pdf
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/705538039.pdf
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9b6286cc09058a6877fc1625fb70e41/13677710990.pdf
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/83895337915.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=hess+well+drilling
    • 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_off0000eb07.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB07 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010319.bin
a68b62d07e97629d575472f811837774b6260d358c2caa7bc5293a6ce603dde0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10319 17532 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000130aa.bin
cb1bd2369d33d1f33a951bf62c5026a4fa7530c2bac4b3c6a7d336d7cc63751e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130AA 10120 bytes