Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83bc15c263069714…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-23 02:12:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e656cd8b6826e19c30344142579c2e02 SHA-1: 4a215e725b6c254c71c4ab48b22a96b4e5af858b SHA-256: 83bc15c2630697145939692d2e6ac9f989e324dd7ee9bb347ac847ba0081cc4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The use of compromised CMS upload directories suggests an attempt to disguise malicious files as legitimate uploads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608213ea878c0---kakazoretuw.pdf
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7536a4b27d---gofedugunoxewix.pdf
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/27819324503.pdf
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/76718756486.pdf
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/34106667928.pdf
    • http://delshadian.com/public/userfiles/file/vukebitusuxutaxo.pdf
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bcb114332367db21189646d062528c7/48591752292.pdf
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c29c5b31b---risigijetulesorano.pdf
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976c9835fc2---80931314426.pdf
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/848127008.pdf
    • http://www.salac.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55847391944.pdf
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55068a873328126f3f7bb9397291e3a9/20671032293.pdf
    • https://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gatip.pdf
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed359c0072---56099296854.pdf
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/55622775769.pdf
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/binikigubewemaf.pdf
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b802f486da0---zunulez.pdf
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5fa67e227---wizadepodadonikorerazere.pdf
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/109e2607f8e21527af107bdd01aa85dd/nozigabowurekezodow.pdf
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pk41hmh6p5a8mrl2qujf2lf813/sedujuviviroravozewifelo.pdf
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608347584b6cb---vapulolazixuvomaruwe.pdf
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/186ff993da592adf3b3059317df9dc7d/2124540192.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=what+to+do+with+shrunken+clothes
    • 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_off0000eb68.bin
9bff3f6afb370759cf719f06ceec0d04e9ed411a3924a4faf5e1e48b661b6244
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB68 16988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001177b.bin
fed3a98298a31d1022d8d93ef54a1c6eef5aeafc986011937a28c168d3692eac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1177B 10740 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013038.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13038 16792 bytes