Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6755587e59c3a70a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:37:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 20d222689dd14794efe245fd7d4b55c9 SHA-1: 951ecf0b5cc4bd20cad8d0561c2bbb1f213dec90 SHA-256: 6755587e59c3a70a064c05143d3f802c890b1071767e15e94596d8fe178595db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM firings indicates a strategy to host malicious content on potentially compromised or disposable domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5464db0a3---50601662446.pdf
    • http://hesexpo.com/img/editor/image/file/feduv.pdf
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f95660b25---35451153141.pdf
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/votusaloroxalo.pdf
    • http://filtrydokoparek.pl/img/all/33136785187.pdf
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4960572591bd9082900595facb7a2b1/42965684470.pdf
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4a8621fa8605097129a65aaf625fdf8/68648162272.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dafd5b7fd8a9ea7bb3f72b0e2eb92d1e/57273032164.pdf
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/le7gb9p0p0vk7ts5e0o884e01e/76655016247.pdf
    • http://tragadsonisurat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mulemeziwovadivanen.pdf
    • https://ottenburger.com/userfiles/file/zilibuwudin.pdf
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/fimifokasar.pdf
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e27e27dfac---46796753341.pdf
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/vowalovifewuxorotekag.pdf
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1b33ebf19---95796651276.pdf
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/431e35550b0b9e4ee8e4260c45bde711/kapopekesexavufa.pdf
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833afadc579---getozapexow.pdf
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210522104113703.pdf
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a151f35b232---zudizemuvesofisixepov.pdf
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608405e6c3fbb---4943639347.pdf
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1c3faf567---dojavakinet.pdf
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210605140103513.pdf
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a56ee8753b11f4c1f1c7f20ea8f906cd/10138945146.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=occult+bacteremia+treatment
    • 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_off0000c979.bin
98694941d29f26fcb8e28507c163dcaff27f81f4ead10f8b94d990e90446b459
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC979 10368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0e6.bin
6b7b0100ef48deccef98d11fd2b89b8707921a36b8cdc796d5d1099f27f5d4ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0E6 17284 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010dd7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD7 16792 bytes