Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b6ff4636144698f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 04:23:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f27b84f89414916fc78abfd5d39b2798 SHA-1: eb533df964e7cbae0abc3051f5d6ddb58ba3bb95 SHA-256: 5b6ff4636144698fcd5f9dc938565393d93f252a9ac59283df26b3a71eb2a216
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on WordPress upload directories, suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://costanzolegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/30425267736.pdf
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b496647288d---47509576394.pdf
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d38e790fd---lodenakasak.pdf
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnnqvqi9ub53ue36hnmfokkj8r/woditawipelevod.pdf
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a54f83eeb96---6030446635.pdf
    • http://nissanotogovap.com/uploads/images/files/tupusimomizubape.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609061c46bfff---79115473371.pdf
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/9762747296.pdf
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f35go7868u6c1buc9eklv0s1n1/18488003760.pdf
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07573a41946781df8c51355f38aa1e7d/fidomomu.pdf
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9kf2dt5n6tf2q1rddhob51d169/kudamorevagemedajawa.pdf
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/toriwisufi.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818080e23c4---poruje.pdf
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43689028528.pdf
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffb5500e53---8111433321.pdf
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9f0630e83---rozavabin.pdf
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781ce9a54e1---3543980885.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b72aec6ec---fumatofipuwemazuwiwexa.pdf
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/67785491394.pdf
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f046a9aaf6c2c306691ebf6a69ab77c/84287379930.pdf
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce6f71011a---73408849071.pdf
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609933416c6d6---gewogubutunuzutoreni.pdf
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ah3927u9o22t2qc31o96ekv0l0/39805578847.pdf
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/kafurinej.pdf
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089aea97b597---dodibusu.pdf
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb5596dc746eef3a0d6b0e527f6c6543/5702055108.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=words+that+rhyme+with+had
    • 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_off00010706.bin
9b46c34234ed93d51ebd9c8ad7f0c9e52d2043c1a91b6130e932ae2b7c1a5c56
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10706 10556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011f30.bin
2ef2786d0826f0e8e31157f610814f1208473ac4249a19a55c02b07b83ee6100
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F30 19568 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000152d1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152D1 16792 bytes