Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 689b36751ad71a77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 18:33:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8cfc782a0c5ba4036aef563446383662 SHA-1: 6120ca39317d1b110b722aeeaf8ca94d2da99a36 SHA-256: 689b36751ad71a776fd9f7b0919e7df400e967d791516d1cc625900eb817ba47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV also flagged this file as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of many links to potentially malicious content suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p8tt8ii95jlndui5l4d6j5iqp5/zogawakuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210611123241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wavazeradenifamabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b92c9e539749d66a60c15ad236b6d26e/54695089306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a133cc3c1f7---muxutiferasipizes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pq1uo9q5e2qlo17gqtgng0l0di/34993653158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ochoadentalcare.com/tacgestorcontenidos_ochoa/documentos/file/In PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be932ebae615d0de77750c20b5867cc7/77961987651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088fd6692f48---51511207681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a39ba47af1---51059600648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schnauzermountainminiatures.com/clients/17729/File/23468576310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/5758707268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plastikacz.cz/soubory/files/52164630822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea4849315762cb7aaf01c3a4329543da/poditokizamenibaluvurifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/87782750676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/10211547506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51c36abf32772967fa4da854b59a5cdd/83075754134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3f12010589---bejugemajadamujilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/jexorozidumavin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6500c59132d92826d6cc8cfed2f31749/38864599810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdbe3c0a102---63600151767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ad93b5388---lutikoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ecce99db7c---kiborogunujafasagob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bethtikvahevents.ca/clients/2/20/20a91c0cb94b02964b0d1c5d980f1596/File/54352270489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8b6f7d398---wopipidikigafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10099913693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=is+water+a+renewable+or+nonrenewable+resourcePDF 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_off0000f899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF899 10408 bytes
SHA-256: a69261c673b6e2d1e5d8aeba7c1362c4082bfa132ecfa117982bcdcf42566715
font_01_sfnt_off00011062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11062 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12874 16676 bytes
SHA-256: af85131ba96fae785b1b74d25d1362a72d41267b5d72ebdab18df8469709e369