Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b56b18142197e90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-05 17:27:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7e74220483f7a94385ab0a279da2d4b6 SHA-1: cf05f5f5e31fab7d1c25d1b082d3a54b0c455bc5 SHA-256: 6b56b18142197e90124a428152bba6df363f324a55ef5f8589cd4de0526cbc5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of these links suggests an intent to lure users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=red+itchy+rash
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef88de61c8cf52113da64dee7566c6ed/17518997328.pdf
    • https://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/sovenito.pdf
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/94319088060cffcdaa13da.pdf
    • https://htddienstverlening.nl/userfiles/file/norulupe.pdf
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f12c5c6a33d2d1cadedef02500a3bcd2/23578448049.pdf
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/67224121488.pdf
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/novoxifiwogajebib.pdf
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607910643c183---nujelufu.pdf
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86598962cc5ca6c6306ab23fe1fd78d3/katuzolamesajudopuxavufa.pdf
    • https://digireg.se/upload/sujigunudorixez.pdf
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/fiwim.pdf
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/64818432481.pdf
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9pdt4ji97v506u7rjdbsnska6j/20876809116.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25957dbc70---pelifumediza.pdf
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/fudov.pdf
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/rewawevotunurepowixuruda.pdf
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ee6d35a1a---69352939436.pdf
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f0e445245---53905512.pdf
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hltl81i0jp2b5a25adc10lgfec/tikuwetimonaxibiwiviji.pdf
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9151f505cf---nugobanejijejomujanis.pdf
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/pabifefadagemel.pdf
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/30455337273.pdf
    • https://medlineplus.gov/rashes.html
    • 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_off0000f549.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF549 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d5b.bin
8570b8b38306a7ff3373f7e7dcfe89f141f0b9614658d688f084e428775fdf66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D5B 17244 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013a84.bin
96f8b6ade4128ed282f7fcc3cdee7b8a53bc9764c296022d2e5a3af62cae3b83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A84 10356 bytes