Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67e3aa19ee2badad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB Created: 2021-07-10 08:09:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bbfb927354e75c547dd318dea66eef7f SHA-1: 52e4cc1c18943a7bf634c67e2146f175d84ed4c1 SHA-256: 67e3aa19ee2badadc8c624bab6d150841b240706917f81d746731bf57ac0df6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The use of compromised CMS upload storage suggests an attempt to disguise malicious files as legitimate content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb36520be58---xegitaxuzofepezivafegopi.pdf
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/jasunubunikike.pdf
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68edqe985dv4j8rumoir84jrf6/xukegitojinedet.pdf
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849f767dcf8---95985310770.pdf
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/37660939896.pdf
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgcpguc8rv41ut369vjp460mle/pitidi.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc3f4f183e2---polevodovobibuvexejuk.pdf
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/680e1c2d0777aadd2d70725cc9d2d995/10674714625.pdf
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/vemotimijov.pdf
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/388cc850e39955d54d8be87449e31396/zimasugolenukomejojobuna.pdf
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac34bce72eb4ee5442d0df56455227af/buwajudenejuwopov.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a93ebf0a47---61222367938.pdf
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e64903ce592c4a8c6d8178e16172ed1b/2276498792.pdf
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f744c8385---tisebujovuv.pdf
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b762f3ec0a9---21339400419.pdf
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429171439950286.pdf
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdfd3d4bf3b---wibugujiwulenu.pdf
    • http://shukokai-voves.fr/userfiles/file/83358255786.pdf
    • http://escqatar.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/kexovixafonefexure.pdf
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748054763a9---lisojukalogisopedetadama.pdf
    • https://biothiennam.com/media/ftp/file/6046031885.pdf
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a0eb0e984---mosekenegamag.pdf
    • http://toicodonlyson.com/uploads/files/71362324315.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=square+root+long+hand
    • 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_off00012334.bin
cc6886641f57a0fcfe782873bd49bd9cac16ff31a214781e02ef9e7d0b74919e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12334 18532 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015278.bin
8c8e1ec6814398fce5d4e9e9f821c70f31d9566db9f9d4b1f011cb63dacee1d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15278 10588 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016a13.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A13 16792 bytes