Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 788493a5f5f69c7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:48:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0e03d839d6750e2f830ddb1ad9ec3981 SHA-1: d6b5d1a513b9f48ffbec7893ad0a17ec8ac19b82 SHA-256: 788493a5f5f69c7f5a0a73f5f875c347b6a36a2850d1596d22f659f4072b612e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many of which lead to potentially malicious PDF files hosted on compromised domains. This suggests the PDF acts as a lure to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3bf4876cc---kutikifelu.pdf
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c25a748bbd727e825043e8494af5a4d/mosumoxuzese.pdf
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160975cef96ef3---fajewolumixiludigopilopa.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac22c17d5d0---14343920644.pdf
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944a02c1c4f---11724810504.pdf
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/fukekud.pdf
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bde17882e7c---xojawonugunagiw.pdf
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a68e071987519b6b5127f44bfc13a81c/maxizena.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e964b7cfd---39587403182.pdf
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53a87aabc1bf6015a3881a3e6aec3847/bawev.pdf
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/1921598886.pdf
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/25454743016.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c967db58017---93783568323.pdf
    • https://agenziadiviaggiocagliari.it/file/67395605974.pdf
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d866efd918bd799716a06fe075a96580/vusifazetupasitoj.pdf
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/fefisadavuti.pdf
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce79997e625---64594231130.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b24680f076d---92850780729.pdf
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/frt5ad5i9ga57hifl831p8scq3/19689685224.pdf
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/vedidame.pdf
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607199504a5ff---dikinelotofodebakilabox.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=answer+circle+puzzles+with+solution
    • 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_off0000cb1c.bin
6f242d4b2b5b92ca73a62811836319bd5c617a551f1ac17b0ce60693cf882e96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB1C 17324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f85e.bin
9722108ad77d7ee032e7533e7f2789c3719f4ffb57dfaa52c6943c94a9887cb6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF85E 10536 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011072.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11072 16792 bytes