Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6225c70b4f474415…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 08:41:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 65fed11f7a507aeab40ba69bfbab01bd SHA-1: 0ba342eed2dbd542ecc59dd68eb22bb201fa7b40 SHA-256: 6225c70b4f4744152ade167bbee0dc8677a7158271cfb480e96337d5c5d7239f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV both strongly indicate maliciousness, classifying it as a phishing or trojan PDF. The primary function appears to be directing users to potentially malicious external sites through a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/veriwubefajebiruri.pdf
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles//file/rarazapatibivumuwa.pdf
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/26846057677.pdf
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/474eih9pblj1heufruhabuv6s1/11449022749.pdf
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad864c705da---puxizunakulepafebisu.pdf
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/63955265271.pdf
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaaad1f8cb00494e34fc02b99f3448bb/56706234544.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5602954fa---67429111373.pdf
    • http://patp1ryb.ru/media/file/zovonedafisewegadenugisix.pdf
    • http://parkhigh65.com/clients/4970/File/sanosadugesuk.pdf
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sukh3cbeh3og8s57dmuhc0f39f/purujekijeled.pdf
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608318352e4a5---fodazutoxadomoxotat.pdf
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/86294377454.pdf
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/ginoranolo.pdf
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb7c5f64fae56d4675f65d25509ca45a/23264676271.pdf
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c95385e23ecd64639bc0b084247ce21c/kajuzigogubije.pdf
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d435899ba---45778761295.pdf
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c22b6ac39---jipojuledururamoxukavofit.pdf
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/xugujubuziligesefuf.pdf
    • http://alwaysfavorentertainment.com/clients/879371/File/56569390930.pdf
    • http://bigband-ulm.de/userfiles/files/74815739297.pdf
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd6adcdf15283c5b952b4710ddf77f54/40128621404.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=can+tea+bags+go+stale
    • 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_off0000f6be.bin
2bc92d64336192d3b2f884beda28ea86827bd7afef11b8274d6c8c5c0d95ea00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6BE 17184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001231a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1231A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013b31.bin
27ce7708c4a5aa32b3c2f6383f2c4ce14a1eaa668cd3914746dcb9fbef79297e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B31 10264 bytes