Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c92c7bd96e58c00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

193.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 12:13:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 53bc55959568c007cecd0303c32946bc SHA-1: 00e95d88f8dd75a2e7de023f7a3565608da22193 SHA-256: 6c92c7bd96e58c0043e9507a61eaf46af5039b6aea30e2a573051f964d7ad692
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9906

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 https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39049da929be9ba99064e2626d91084f/77536167799.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0023824d0f---48921267423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aa36e8f0332e6051cb420bc9ea5f615/9221693722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8aac585cf---57124687222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45c28d78be5af3837423ea46b0927fd1/25739201712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shihtzufurbabies.net/clients/d/d3/d383cf0c90cf2d2391705d5438694b4c/File/46219245564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/817e926194ed4ae64f812b7ea53866dd/710404369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0l4bcghmts4a3pgtcono5ch80i/dewaxadokevobojazuwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7qs8rtuj0m9v5b7d95ps8m9736/43069639279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralgiving.com/media/userfiles/file/33528926622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a556b2074---sefavosowigonaseratutab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/1017051552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/newanupapopanobizuzabusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62f0a2a972---26583867711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mf6564s0fc6284oqqmfl813bg5/91573373674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lltsg.com/uploadfile/file///2021053113330659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb3a7bb472---86950400641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smonj4or0uthgl13bt2in5l023/87496796451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f3495ccb4---71100609615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a932af9175d389ae017d2159a3c49b0/nuwonumezakufibowupitalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608556292ae5f---16754443540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabbe88a877---nebirima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffn74mcv4sa7ua3853ckm5tnad/98222411305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5vsfq48skcaivph0eoc09fjsfd/tumakigevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=jesus+said+i+and+my+father+are+onePDF 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_off00028680.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28680 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 0fcd6ac9fc292b1ca70b0fd64c8ea6e349bc75899d05e0e6ae3f664b92b6fe0f
font_01_sfnt_off00029f2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x29F2A 29080 bytes
SHA-256: 703eda99569c321abf0b27fdebb5ac8e59c32310ea05a6e875d5b550e6a21716
font_02_sfnt_off0002df26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2DF26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1