Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73b1476cb7307122…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:29:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8af9a2cd022043aff4bca5e6c2d9fb9f SHA-1: 83e2ba0a2a293c03c63ffe4117fb81da207371df SHA-256: 73b1476cb73071229098a263ca1c06406937730616d62473ea2e63932292ab5c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm on disposable hosting and ClamAV detected it as a phishing trojan. The ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff42546845---19137238722.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/72252459102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e38509c7f7---gebajapawezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d83da9f9ee---dutakomajezoled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monamifrance.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210626_A9EA23499F16DC17.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa591e5d027---zuvamifajebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prospr.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ketagotexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f98134d8f---fatim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostenpo.jp/userfiles/files/keravuritujufatuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b480f50529---20993044622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/fidepujupop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shophouse.info/images/files/dugovokojem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7u2esuhkhkue0udgpcdjahc5s7/takifilirurubakopijapesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/61757514480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7e34c8524---99409229022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f017c0a1dea---90092716182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee89aa2ab69---92864356157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33221333863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9d7fa6650---kasumiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/xirurusileguxigumopome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowalstwwo.pl/public/cms//images/file/jubogebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/xovizumifilasodogawujuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishtech.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/17426532309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iuivnh8mmn5pcjrrghmee4qm38/91995468577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730b94cb927---94638690404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e5d57c0d6a---42219207545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=lease+cancellation+letter+samplePDF 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_off0000dd69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f57b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF57B 17156 bytes
SHA-256: b1f421542464fffd952101f9378f8b8a411b23d4626a47149b88c4c0010f4f62
font_02_sfnt_off00012185.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12185 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 40dfebe8c60a6f34e1d1a8f03d148d550cd3c2b4cccccb4d6528db58ed7d1b35