Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a067b6fbcd8dee20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:23:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ccaef5f09141840a474b03ec8ae36b9b SHA-1: 99ea1caa3deabe29937e5ba8d1ccf4efced2ddfd SHA-256: a067b6fbcd8dee2085e47e1bd879372629c3cc7cb8f697416930e0b0732733f4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious destinations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=happy+4th+month+engagement+anniversary
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa2e4c35ec---10737469791.pdf
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/454eac621cdf5c70403cfad1a0e9ff1b/fajazuxusovaminabag.pdf
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e51366577d64079ed503dac702eef115/80158644077.pdf
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892ffc2ed97---5249866461.pdf
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/497385a6cfb127bab8b407148c0c910a/bixubisuxifakezularogaw.pdf
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31bcfdb9ab---86305467015.pdf
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4r55dc6vdrhcndr9pbqbsl0vkd/pojujegariris.pdf
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/65947686823.pdf
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/ximelemiza.pdf
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/40006168639.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d0446ce94---73739228116.pdf
    • http://artistalexanderkanevskyroyalshakespeareglobetheatrelondon.com/clientMedia/file/86522655963.pdf
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c80ec7f278---janonuwufamumusew.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7291811e47a1fd6d3afb9bb9f4a44c29/66160458962.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f2d3.bin
fd494554c7a7a2c4488382a78096c535ff133766c7221992be4f6a58596b2467
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D3 16164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001084a.bin
7e7d4a14323af7d982b9503442aac507186b3c372a6e99be258afa66b5d32d8e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1084A 10904 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012165.bin
fad067ed4ef9729899ae29f4878fc6da7c6b8c726d78c477b554507f433c9fe5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12165 17380 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00014eb3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EB3 16792 bytes