Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 988245415458911e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 06:55:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8a244db722c6902d64c9ab857ca45f0b SHA-1: 4ce1b1f05b13839b4c28482c09e560d19c8668bf SHA-256: 988245415458911eb222d26954e1776294d8b4bb00a32b899cd5062db7b1f15a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document designed to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+49.5+cm+to+inches
    • https://sanipacific.com/attachment/file/94574361120.pdf
    • https://locktactyuma.com/userfiles/file/xoxetaxidirile.pdf
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b03987e69---potewenapedin.pdf
    • https://dla-pracownika.pl/pliki_user/File/73351847185.pdf
    • http://ssteelelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/28618058944.pdf
    • http://aroma-es.site/yamituki-n/uploads/files/5718323047.pdf
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/barapexosesozobuti.pdf
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bd417f2efd---veledowejat.pdf
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e00c1ad5d---62828196147.pdf
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b145f59fe07---52517649907.pdf
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9190c8882375123306be140382b141a2/72974569027.pdf
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/35912782834.pdf
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/862b5e53989bc40b711c806f2c667521/muwefufodadexipomixuwa.pdf
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///9855403194.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609888e6cc55e---64000705.pdf
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/pebodava.pdf
    • http://gandolfiarchitetti.com/userfiles/files/jinosifoxupitozipefal.pdf
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/44421066285.pdf
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/nanokekebaguso.pdf
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/71574528882.pdf
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0267349b3---99774410572.pdf
    • 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_off0000d438.bin
1d772037004dd88eac861029a8c67a8f67d118bb809b0702e2549138e051f7d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD438 17236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000101aa.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101AA 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000119c1.bin
26ed2b6e77d467bc32a05f32486adcb2e0dfa7fde1767097c9540bf256d3f118
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119C1 10832 bytes