Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 755559228f029215…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 09:57:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1ea32568693cd20ee1140537faef9e50 SHA-1: d84da5595d0e48dc0c0e8d5e1042c4f04c5b84d9 SHA-256: 755559228f029215ade31ba29368ef0ec464dc3eb66b8b689786363d7cc70ab0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious files or redirect users. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of these links and the overall detection profile strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fdd322043---1456240843.pdf
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/pizivedutivejebak.pdf
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/loromimozagawu.pdf
    • http://sankofalectureseries.com/clients/a/ae/ae3037074ff26ae8502dacd236f4ced8/File/41961875252.pdf
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/16678854267.pdf
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72978acc8e16b19bf1f655a63da782eb/9390622376.pdf
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/wimof.pdf
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/78440225389.pdf
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5349456681.pdf
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdfae9869e---13417891321.pdf
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4ae8c43d1---65811332266.pdf
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a27120a1b3fa6a7ca2c9d84756ad3833/51752213000.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703992b47b1---83555149521.pdf
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210624103609.pdf
    • https://prastosten.se/anvandarbilder/95/files/40660667177.pdf
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/wogadape.pdf
    • http://brightwayconsultancyservices.com/userfiles/file/vomulif.pdf
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a6m601o5o3trcbi9pedc3nfs0/tidusizamibugezevevoribol.pdf
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f5b55002c---22873089484.pdf
    • http://bennyhigh73.com/clients/3/33/33ce00c6a031cf3b17a3dcf69aaa7594/File/88925746474.pdf
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b06fe00fbb63b68c5bd9149e9a9023c8/92701854061.pdf
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/36415895260.pdf
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734a75d5bdb---25394136708.pdf
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc2931e10a62c19c74da57e761a96be0/65300212045.pdf
    • http://planbmedia.hufiles/merafofitasufezaviw.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=lauderdale+county+alabama+board+of+education
    • 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_off0000fec1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEC1 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000116d8.bin
06cc498fd521b2fe62c6ca9de8b2c5a6769ecabd36b07300f509ce9317264fd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116D8 10780 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f99.bin
29999ee6bbcd962141e9b31fcc695c1abd8c226b1e959ea5f1bfc51de02dd4cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F99 17444 bytes