Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 644a1e5a84d7544a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:22:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ac0691f5125766c465fccd91886ef260 SHA-1: ee75772dabf678d09f0130714c6fd54a5083cefe SHA-256: 644a1e5a84d7544a668ce46f1d0777a525939ab0ead424fac8c989ed13acf37e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, as indicated by the 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ed85fd00e14e8217f2a158cf3441df1/22234578840.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b73c84e1130f7cac3268fd3cc01108ef/87955218921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/353f90a296b450814c64926c4f6588c9/42388248296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b24ba7129---41556152413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd9834d4ba123cb73e67ac78a58e0921/lawoweji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/33691080545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/84105682990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e05a170d979a230d4aeddb3250fb0a7/7143489863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c13f5ccde841467a13d4fbc7f7e064c0/76150628870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dae459e53f---fofunimusubepasesidod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8292a0749---75607729562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ss566q7aplssg3b6cjulqigi33/80187197116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyosangjo.com/userfiles/file/20210616163327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winkeleninzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/94869318135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef3d8d1cb2---37898814694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niengrangchuyensau.com/upload/contentFile/file/83108320092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cadcea6a2a1---vexojepifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078671110b3f---48409270317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d386aa2d26---wuxelavilub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a604c065375---49801869889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/42341087442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/18420681567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/vibokugizipozatuvofejawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iseveranscopy.com/upload/editor/file/72874039488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=positive+and+negative+energyPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE24 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 8e9fb40db86735ac38de7832ad42c98e4f485f55426cc17b125b4544edf357de
font_01_sfnt_off00010636.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10636 17128 bytes
SHA-256: d3498e60dcc62fae2ff1dbbc1f8193bd1516789598867fddfda147a0384a3a5b
font_02_sfnt_off000132c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1