Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 964559d3ef8ae3b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-08-20 05:02:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a776afa45b901e1ae28150f6b2c77e6d SHA-1: d4633ca207cf6e4ac62f360062e05ce589be6237 SHA-256: 964559d3ef8ae3b52d5fd3cd30f96d557e94e47f21873c187ed83e24275c5090
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into clicking malicious links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to leverage SEO for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a70b3c82d9---83584538936.pdf
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/vogojiwatugewexa.pdf
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c126116ea3---xudefawemidovudom.pdf
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771845ea61e---82031636422.pdf
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/85904868918.pdf
    • http://mpti.ru/userfiles/file/44569061462.pdf
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/nuvirut.pdf
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2c6f0bdf9d---28974079075.pdf
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9auhgv0iqj39o7p54fhu3n867/wedamupo.pdf
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/48759725193.pdf
    • http://neodermclinic.com/file_media/file_image/file/sidaluz.pdf
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811da36ff09---63985115594.pdf
    • https://officialbacknumber.com/editor_up/3673091567.pdf
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210620132250.pdf
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39777d5cb12f690d9389b2e13810cd6a/73402177462.pdf
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855dbfe67a2---kodadilatatafuzebof.pdf
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be7a497c8d---55695374996.pdf
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02sfmvu0nlr3cocto6e9lt9f74/38311245308.pdf
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h0n2e16l2b92dl3qrsuallvdpu/83881591964.pdf
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9f14c9b65738c73d2b4924bc0a0f489/vodomoru.pdf
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/31270429911.pdf
    • http://studiorumeo.it/userfiles/files/zobopatobev.pdf
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2vd0ne41uqigj6538ok1670o4/fatibaxigupuluwosane.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=panasonic+tv+remote+guide+button+not+working
    • 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_off0000e6c8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6C8 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fedf.bin
05714257e46aa4c2a4f648feb743e1dd1065ae7515f4e9543d8f8f2f78e64fd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEDF 11152 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000118d9.bin
e42dcfae9be6652a7f56028a9cb40a111180f3fde34e721ce43687a510d69b7f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D9 16672 bytes