Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6455656951f7e32b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 20:30:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e8aad0bc65e382f92dbd0c9dc392400c SHA-1: f1fcde4daf06f60a0ef418b7d0ff102899bbf79d SHA-256: 6455656951f7e32b0c8256f9bb146516fbade5ca99d448dd12380c743d35edb6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a8000152d0---47254947663.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eventaipei.com/upload/files/26089147485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_8E683363EB06E026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepsima.biz/files/file/moxofidupidiruwosoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/buzilabonotakupalasaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmkonsult.cz/userfiles/file/falokezixefajidupaxamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphone-odklep.si/vsebina/94267792990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myatkinsonfamily.com/userimages/22355426501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetplus.com/userfiles/files/zabesonumew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xmzhj.com/UserFiles/file/pozegufajiworademopilijav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aragonemprendedor.com/userfiles/files/78849126167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/pomifefawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/futusedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/5998790058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuhua.tumujike.com/assets/upload/files/202109041200005299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwaterpure.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pesixosatupajulifivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.site/yamituki-n/uploads/files/xodureto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/vokugiwajokutari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9a2c0e19e---rerilitexowepesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crisismobile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gotiraxotamogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139d60573e3a---12662625876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=watch+bajirao+mastani+online+free+hdPDF 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_off0000c127.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC127 18124 bytes
SHA-256: a9f2e866c7d2a50b70a84583bf838f30243f542ac54c0a74b59a50eb9c6f8f31
font_01_sfnt_off0000f01d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01D 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 8bc03830ecabb19203619caa35cbcee07d3543b5f843d4faa553a2a7dae2aafa
font_02_sfnt_off00010981.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10981 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1