Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6829f0e5240fd816…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-15 09:55:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2ad4a1f1a3a9cd118a120f20f4a4d605 SHA-1: 3c2c378f4c3d58cf501ce4c75e4acf5b9ab0de4f SHA-256: 6829f0e5240fd816ac97ea529366164e2f797ce331d2554594669eb40d4fd3ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of numerous distinct hosts and URLs suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious files and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877f6e2ebdb---niporil.pdf
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079399932a0f---dewevoroxuxeraxikun.pdf
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4e74ec2fd---batosu.pdf
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beaaca5b73f---52947164017.pdf
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/reporebojosidek.pdf
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a4c6d83c1---nanabosuvutosuvija.pdf
    • http://www.grupoaccs.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muzerexol.pdf
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085181d6364d---52995004959.pdf
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/30653413343.pdf
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/62455808809.pdf
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0545e6ce295daa08c9da5d6dde607417/95476135490.pdf
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65199c18036ff0901cc720b521e1949f/79285018211.pdf
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j5cl43hu4hucblrl7kdq9jja41/12361121647.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608829bfe596f---44346969151.pdf
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/levinobagemudoxekara.pdf
    • http://theettiares.com/clients/f/f0/f03dfc1790708d0b03c48e9879ef2ea6/File/ronagowezamuvarik.pdf
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/60536113269.pdf
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/082b56e96856008b693937fe40b289f4/92883454774.pdf
    • http://2016montemayorreunion.com/clients/e/e5/e530e98a7ee505477716bae2fe71cdef/File/56286094339.pdf
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/datakirulugifavekonetiwe.pdf
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/75884332076.pdf
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/gejugasom.pdf
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090946db1251---rojukibigusevitujufiril.pdf
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/860eh7fapsq29hr01hpfr5p684/deteriguzokuwe.pdf
    • http://eaeocs.com/clients/c/c7/c75ed17bfa54634cfc1039f1b599a7e7/File/zufemanofodatasewen.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=be+paid+attention+to
    • 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_off0000e70d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE70D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff1f.bin
61c650137807138ed9216d27f862dd455eb99737fab2a203381a5c9aeec0ff53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1F 30816 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013b38.bin
649c24941fcebb6485a075508d6d90949de66d564089eeb7b74e7e9eabaa432d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B38 10124 bytes