Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ab88349474b672a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 03:42:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 70415d66075b4255dd62c89435a24c91 SHA-1: ab1d5f10fc1ddcdc6c1cbad9558d5477d86dce84 SHA-256: 6ab88349474b672a4ac2cce474e0f5c585f0a4578c9a2fe4a242a0c701cf18ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM firings indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the final malicious destination through a series of redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0507bea3d4---45569309223.pdf
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nnbd5s4btlpcuer3n2plmc7j9v/wunijumosopedakiro.pdf
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/955b637964d6d760365bb8d9baaf3d90/nudemiwararusidajuginuli.pdf
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210507210827.pdf
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac06eb04d46---19197532727.pdf
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lum7beo1kelg4rf3feb1j4i021/4211112799.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d6a487b49484ddcfbe50fc312d37e86/zeboxogavinefuxusav.pdf
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2fce9b206a---posuzofabuxulobivom.pdf
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a8219c80e---81916198893.pdf
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/bejuz.pdf
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e427937728---tularofufininidumeres.pdf
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b26338a4f1---madorokiwamemaxefe.pdf
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8f762973ec---51610245725.pdf
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/81888267931.pdf
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be241135261---konatudopovuxipuzo.pdf
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/92626876225.pdf
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/95496434091.pdf
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bb313d6385b55aba5b037865e2260f8/58016755617.pdf
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/42568448902.pdf
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071960620915---kudikijorera.pdf
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g816tiln7l66114vrejls4l4uj/87404159909.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=at+home+garbage+disposal+cleaner
    • 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_off0000e960.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE960 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010177.bin
c712b2e19d69c3c42598a22cb58b27a368f7b1ffd049ac71f383546a35db9ba8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10177 11080 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ab1.bin
dbef79566836a9fb96e160ee2bbd4a60c8d855d8d31807e2935a3ac28a5af1f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB1 17144 bytes