Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d786f2de10b081d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.3 KB Created: 2021-07-24 08:33:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: da34cc23fbf41cb6f957ba2fc6a15d82 SHA-1: 6e0b4374e972f4b5ff5de27faadc2cb802fc9de7 SHA-256: 5d786f2de10b081de8251e0340706c28a9ecff1fdb36c229192e1796c1635750
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains malicious content. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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 http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/2405229499.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160899186ef9f4---rapegubijezo.pdf
    • http://nhactheducthammy.com/upload/files/mabobogevelifax.pdf
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db26105350---77584659724.pdf
    • http://bouncebodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/45962622238.pdf
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/29207070124.pdf
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/54133792102.pdf
    • http://ever0036.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210605150559.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90a99e345bcdf8e38e27696eb1a1ccd9/43413233622.pdf
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983ed7a85a5---dubivaxekitutadisud.pdf
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708947a113e---bugelawutuliva.pdf
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/muwawilapinelixejev.pdf
    • http://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/gugunowivofipaxetud.pdf
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905257811ec---63048110056.pdf
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4305a586d6---jevub.pdf
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/pademeloxikudopubogan.pdf
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5acdek5gbdu256ujel754qvst9/sasosuzumuzone.pdf
    • https://dpengineers.info/admin/userfiles/file/40554791329.pdf
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mo6mj99bvii0hoembnh1srhj0o/95256161889.pdf
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sujofuresabojojetude.pdf
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/riwaguga.pdf
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5c9381447---61658129940.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d7bab11c5---guwopefag.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=perks+of+being+a+wallflower+part+4+discussion+questions
    • 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_off00012c34.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C34 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001444b.bin
d4fdd20c5cb6e8f4ff79edcb89427639be40b0335a04e4f452459b504862153f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1444B 11436 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015edd.bin
9bd776e7ac7d2caacc134f615335029ebb307af4afbf501beb0bfbd71578884c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EDD 17176 bytes