Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6305efacd28f974a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:46:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6208a3245bfd351a15e81b2e32d20eb7 SHA-1: 4328a7f9d7aa793f3ca07a30ac04870f0c7e9459 SHA-256: 6305efacd28f974ae70c167652acf37b7f230bba843e634272850d3d0f06de35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within formcraft and super-forms plugin upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of these links and the PDF's structure strongly indicate it's used as a lure to direct users to malicious content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080fb9019963---kojukira.pdf
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1gtsjutjg3hsmanp53oagc21u3/61351141145.pdf
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd9edc369c---67401801479.pdf
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/zedexupejotulan.pdf
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c516e9045---86755857996.pdf
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1aeed715c4---10709914952.pdf
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11b0a78ece3a8c8541d7b18ccbd99066/26029270876.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607216facb03e---fawezonojobutejiwexitax.pdf
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/94270096046.pdf
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd86601932---56586762691.pdf
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984b8bc0471---39093483740.pdf
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/nopexafemaju.pdf
    • https://businessservicesuk.com/userfiles/file/39011188821.pdf
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/80755508911.pdf
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/53696730623.pdf
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/96142140374.pdf
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6e73942c81223b9ee0ef8f584b45dc5/48736140962.pdf
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e15c32113d0321c7976cd407abdddf1/75519858134.pdf
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078665eca788---rofunabimikil.pdf
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e0dadf559---14687074227.pdf
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d03b028388dd21c4d0787f9be52c56b7/59350509762.pdf
    • https://cytairtool.com/test/userfiles/file/20210613_c840e.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ugc+net+home+science+study+material+free+download+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_off0000e9d9.bin
0feae49244d06e5fc6ab3394d8dc060da95163ec10b589ff039788cbbafe6247
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D9 17232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000116a6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116A6 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012ebd.bin
610c39643af263e646b8ad7ebb7b5bd98a0ec644663424e8133ba47a7e98133b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EBD 11376 bytes