Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73e6899a41a42c3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-05-27 07:23:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 30b3f3aaa1f54c7128961cb4119ec510 SHA-1: e4e5a3e97002b0f8a457d28003514cfb99327c2e SHA-256: 73e6899a41a42c3e0cbd1f2ec15b42e24fc3c40f98189cc5b592c700c4066f8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb996332ef---tadoramitugutaloxesalo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c4181c48ec8d20522502f4d76ee62d3/wogiritusugenasedilerozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/35000682889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48b1f056c3d3c50bc120b32d92b60f3d/zabedopawubigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa13c448385ae4704b591853fc5c6c23/96400610556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k42m8dk13kebb7plsakg50apue/69281583856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759867cf1ea---72183719647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/tojudepofixej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607287c575f9b---puwanej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2da8d0329fd30b2719d72cac2ce5e756/dewinunozazixati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841c24dab30---10831938856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608913ba3cd18---37269595845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexrocksrollovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1db4lfbgiajrquju4l0asuvoc/1776315476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/74443483116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53eb88e46d7a84d16c998ecdadf5e845/72481098240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=%25D0%25B3%25D0%25B4%25D0%25B7+%25D0%25BF%25D0%25BE+%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B3%25D0%25BB%25D0%25B8%25D0%25B9%25D1%2581%25D0%25BA%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BC%25D1%2583+%25D1%258F%25D0%25B7%25D1%258B%25D0%25BA%25D1%2583+5+%25D0%25BA%25D0%25BB%25D0%25B0%25D1%2581%25D1%2581+oxford+teamPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE01 6580 bytes
SHA-256: 58e1c530c80efe82e61ac12d08a6f10771be97a98e247301467bfcf225176166
font_01_sfnt_off0000f374.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF374 15068 bytes
SHA-256: 8d3a5284fa38bf47f9edf164a61b48a8ac4bafc1cf1b4353792fa84d650bcce7