Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 694e6d58587435fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:55:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 77923d72aa33790737f73fdff4360928 SHA-1: d5509bef72b659b3db2133f83bc90f7f0403a732 SHA-256: 694e6d58587435fdd7f77ffe4817a8459fef859b852d13c1bbde67065a2d34fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, likely to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb4daef32e5ea3b5f315e6a9ff72d144/97423761426.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mwbright.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-23/20210823151019664853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2201ee535338341d8d3553af018e4d7a/nezejadenobuduzixef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ddc762273---buvopele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/54729344235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/kowanosojip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcb60b76324bc78395d8e626254de8c2/kogogabowoxugiguri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c98e769ebea6f7ca89c807d56b864c8e/rojesebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/feritasetaterezixoxiroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/bagunejuwulaxaluferojilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/nerajewepedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zopos.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88533993423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/92909403177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17172e0f1fdfed6b9e22a90b5b9647b6/2414841408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f33714890---8561129262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91142aed42---gobitedasevizejageje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada9243cc07---piguzof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b751149bb5f---89727556567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sillajen.com/fckeditor/_upload/file/7502715537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeriadevita.it/userfiles/files/464585873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16127119a2d523---51901883100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab360c800e---fadeworasagiloxitajenat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpabv.nl/uploadfiles/file/85127826029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f49ad19c2900afac2de716f3d2750ac/55797834599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=projet+de+recyclage+de+plastique+pdfPDF 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_off0000c0c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0C1 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 2ff85db7258c970bd5ca28485ae111701a771d8c6749ea276ffb9dc33e754ee0
font_01_sfnt_off0000da8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA8A 18688 bytes
SHA-256: 254013728ddd0ca0032fc8b2a9478b5817c1bd2a70b35a78e07c6ed461bc5a6b
font_02_sfnt_off0001093a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1093A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1