Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6442ae4aba67fff3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 08:45:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c22361f969f7bd18b29034d73d0c157d SHA-1: 75591091722d8bb59cdcb1e4d7d43acf23a9c50f SHA-256: 6442ae4aba67fff3ff3ff29811784e6ca2dbbeae166a6bf66ac682b03a57440b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to disposable or compromised domains, many of which are hosted on WordPress upload directories. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=student+of+the+year+full+movie+download+filmywap
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/50804545964.pdf
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93cbd5f0647b66e129889c49e13919ed/2558384648.pdf
    • http://ronniejoymemorialfund.com/clients/1/1a/1a75100f29d804137a154ca93ef51a80/File/16878980353.pdf
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/91081373559.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaac502195079ab4de33290b72570d47/43025644269.pdf
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/335075bfb7f795a21f0c9a8fe0cef886/jewumipememumifajog.pdf
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/27768126320.pdf
    • http://chipublichouse.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7913436732.pdf
    • http://mspchicagolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wetalaxolur.pdf
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098327217728---40392945616.pdf
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/vimoxex.pdf
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/weladopazavolejo.pdf
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f97364bda8---78608147775.pdf
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1510935a41212978528fe61ec57153f5/58650748311.pdf
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b00146483c5---54138019795.pdf
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d4f88b5e20a7a31d835ce1bde1abf78/80420611554.pdf
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a2be8c075df10f3e9dbf933218218fb/jovavadagudon.pdf
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fea1a0e27930c123207567a57aea1fb7/62259511158.pdf
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/16274281061.pdf
    • http://evola.it/userfiles/files/basaboraseduzot.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_off0000f060.bin
9a89a6a2beff283d5c53927ef61aaaf796ff4f90d57757e79a2f34599c259e07
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF060 16748 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011be8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BE8 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000133ff.bin
1d45ad183d955999950e34e0d20d603dc9d69212cba8b4d0586f14026d314216
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133FF 11036 bytes