Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61420d5045984392…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:10:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ac7dffec1c8b570595c0f1dd9b14df59 SHA-1: 5ca7de8c3c8ab85ffd88beba42ac57fb8391609b SHA-256: 61420d50459843922854d1b638ee020b975013c55f908c0911a9dce56baef110
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a tactic to host malicious files on seemingly legitimate but compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9764

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://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b1191768845fe8d66261ccaf9a76cb5/miramamajimisozo.pdf
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607021e054c6f---36589167772.pdf
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6f61a6ad39---jazito.pdf
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607588f6ce702---92706557662.pdf
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01p7atgcr0kpiict9of3mhn59u/bidafutetoxogafusegalak.pdf
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609619423a246---jedolugojod.pdf
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af1dfaee01f---79436135419.pdf
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9025a1f42f---xobuzepiw.pdf
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a947d0cf8eb---dipubafazokezeram.pdf
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804c537bcc7---jaxopobifowegobuzu.pdf
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070affa3095d---11661669087.pdf
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773a65dc0dc---pijimafitokabubaj.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd65a246c6---zonowulofoma.pdf
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/35058684462.pdf
    • https://hansenlight.com/UploadFile/files/fisikukujulu.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a01828cc07---27017168498.pdf
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a95d79ac3a---16180905514.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/58315532601.pdf
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86ffbb749c5bf63ca1b8879e3972fcc1/puwipizewenider.pdf
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/xevaxanere.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2e40tv2ovsj6g7s6qvus8iq84/54205103833.pdf
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2510ae0afe---puworawipadijobewop.pdf
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607224247781c---zajas.pdf
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f00cb01df---zugorirebemusokufanu.pdf
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14faae02cfa95783ac2d212dac87d3c4/29951408074.pdf
    • http://hccc252.ca/clients/e/e4/e484b38507f190a955b66748903449e1/File/sebamolafaxat.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=children%27s+hematology+and+oncology
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec20.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC20 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010431.bin
bf3ac2bbc5511ca59b022801f68684aa2b8ae7661b1a55c6866fed5ae8d27d0d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10431 16232 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a14.bin
bc9ea40e60de5d0bbbab2da9757bc74357a09199b59c36e4a81b81a0a94ab129
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A14 10996 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013349.bin
00cc4c09ce18870964e4ead0cd0d862d61069347b5e770338b07d0358c1e2a0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13349 16728 bytes