Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e5462d38f2f1669…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-05-01 04:16:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b95fb0f1ea251e47158be7b02795fb96 SHA-1: 27c24a88708a64b2837767facce75d573fcb1bce SHA-256: 6e5462d38f2f16696c5f0b7dea5a62d98255353bdd03c259a452d2790252bc37
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'free indesign newspaper template' and 'wkhtmltopdf', likely a lure to disguise the malicious nature of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14bc0e9b85ecb272cbb69a0d2e6fd977/zezimada.pdf
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qdj7lvjao2al24blgt5unspap/demarizumodukanegototofi.pdf
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iuc4ds0kjmq2hgpaehimjckuns/foxisosim.pdf
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724e0b60a50---41342280759.pdf
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0d3b83ccb60d6c931e23c78e1e4e771/88860564560.pdf
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607714fe6560c---vogafirurupatekenurapofir.pdf
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6306022a41dd090f835071933083d75d/15558534952.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d47be0d6f717e4bae14a562f1ce4fc23/44985416355.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c434f68008---8486854967.pdf
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c07a3cc6f---25938649241.pdf
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7c6d72896---99771529749.pdf
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53461mo2gabb0ncm9fma55jv7h/86918539660.pdf
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0603c0395bc1b512842846a8046e6e2/digipipimotisog.pdf
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e5bfa57f1ab8ee07c7daf16b7adfb41/rijoz.pdf
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/939ddb61d43bda3a2eea5796fa822c43/65160817214.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=free+indesign+newspaper+template
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b338210aa5b727792d435bd6f239a261/67676369317.pdf
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9dc.bin
4137eb63deb27dce78c943d07df18f56b29259083cc7f6d2db01b1b0a3b0db03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9DC 5004 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eacf.bin
04e3a725ece83e21391da0ec345f07f9e7cf76b3eb18997db1c7e2e8fd7420e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEACF 9792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010c48.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C48 4324 bytes