Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6238f94a7a35f4c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 04:43:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2dc9be8ff68bd0d7c08b7207aedd12f9 SHA-1: 35bbd564b4f91fe79af807d452705ff9359b7663 SHA-256: 6238f94a7a35f4c468d9c7776d983964b9f9a6b42e3d979fdba1f474fce2145a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=job+interview+quetions+and+answers
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609578f93bc10---11731348243.pdf
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/97143563904.pdf
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43158a492f49dabb9e519f44ca450c46/fawos.pdf
    • http://iburgisidimarsala.eu/userfiles/files/beridolijaleve.pdf
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4fbcd9d734ca72399f7406d2e873f11/dovev.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082313e55615---kupobagamul.pdf
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fe02b941f0---86039002593.pdf
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a10e020cb---22903440335.pdf
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4195dafd41---65209609444.pdf
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a55bc6b5a9cc85fc62f5c7103d2eca3b/zipubogetewopowuxosofetux.pdf
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fabile.pdf
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/gotilupasikuxinudobafoka.pdf
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a261b16a663---mujizabikemarefuwez.pdf
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a50d8109ff3---49496196341.pdf
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fda2bb750c---vowesunutin.pdf
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47726250991.pdf
    • http://ciccioinpentola.com/userfiles/files/11791890122.pdf
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608853a840716---19182443303.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096aa57b4be9---82385988405.pdf
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/73683279193.pdf
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages//files/mekutajopagodimokugola.pdf
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/sabigotomare.pdf
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160becb0666e68---1277271223.pdf
    • 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_off00010345.bin
aad34aa3d39df7a41837290fa52157244365c41038f86932af668f5bea32429a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10345 16952 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012f14.bin
b767a2ac37a4ec3d4955382e0caa27cd322038657984351f9ec88b5309859aad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F14 10724 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000147b8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147B8 16792 bytes