Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8562122886daa7db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 13:29:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6a465da3591a8cc3c0c0672e3fcaff18 SHA-1: 370b6c4808785753dc1a980fac4dfecb6bf2e9dc SHA-256: 8562122886daa7dbc1eed2bd80ebd1e289b7e6b901a0989969fe6e7804461fd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The 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 numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this document is part of a phishing campaign, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://xpressup.com/userfiles/file/90751634007.pdf
    • http://lungtransplantopen.com/clients/d/de/de7cc03d42bda6b8b84c8ac9728529bb/File/4482503932.pdf
    • http://bartuceviri.com/userfiles/file/panozirenuvepotex.pdf
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be666b037ee---64440931916.pdf
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e65dc3f83a9e4a3707a693790485ecfc/joworuwatarawawenowap.pdf
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b940c4f56---59440841361.pdf
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fj07vmn0s56f9h0klhrf6l3l0/1475356993.pdf
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fgic7n3nvd0ihis2t9vljan7n6/55773831580.pdf
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6qhrdk6fdqopag7ua1kf2ffgj/rudadezemufewigo.pdf
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5db922a533358c0402eac3d77ad95e8b/bizisilozarugazulized.pdf
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092238f1712f---87029994458.pdf
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18d506278b593511d2095ee17bf01503/nixorulon.pdf
    • http://glenbrooksouth1970.com/clients/1/17/17fc1bd13d5538a69f39d58c869d2fc5/File/40632040214.pdf
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lf9eog3g8pcq1mt3hel0gu4c87/14655560578.pdf
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efb7396c414657a531781d8b2d46ef58/86630701962.pdf
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/81574156866.pdf
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/77422522020.pdf
    • http://brownewingfamily.com/clients/a/a4/a4d7a48ed280e719b438ae57db99af5e/File/76416020858.pdf
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7489e4f1dcaa87ca8809524661ce60d2/bukapalabeworewewafexefu.pdf
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dfdbd64460---98989701373.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742a2378958---lukopagowolorivukapuvi.pdf
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adef1cbe12e---34954977007.pdf
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b1c659610---59176953991.pdf
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c91072594---niterolugimosizudodetil.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=invitation+to+tender+document
    • 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_off0000d698.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD698 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeaa.bin
e2655031ca8ba30ef00533bb3fa7d8d272c147e664db9b2eef1dce58dcbc7353
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEAA 16832 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a18.bin
8e685e980e1892206da74e7c6a153da4f4972ab8c1b2b79ab5c3054adeb578ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A18 10432 bytes