Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a655fd3489b8818d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

168.6 KB Created: 2021-07-13 19:01:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 5ecf3bb7f2b48708354dbd0e5af2c380 SHA-1: 659745d991d7a007f7a1a56a619e5f7b8748d2f9 SHA-256: a655fd3489b8818d8dc55c5424a6e9c7b4e20941310ec31f921aec6ebbe2fad2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially malicious content hosted on these sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9220

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://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a694a7753f2---37213472436.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4894501289802458065745f42fa46369/lazuxewexubipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c28427e286999b46dcf6a29428e37fe2/xobos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47d6b3dce9328be6b802f072a79c330b/45237089755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aplus.to/userfiles/file/22850776088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmrealty360degree.in/userfiles/file/xowuxajojetimidifuziwugor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2476006cdd3ee65bbc0ddc98956d6754/bofokabimivavisota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/57056800995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/10354290926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df57ce3addbbbb6528b28ceabb2cbd83/65982043993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kr6e3lmp8c2pb32cbaffh2vtng/vosojixunofakugugezavire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/er80ghmupa6rq7gqruq44cluv0/5929856214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cba9196e4c7---22855229964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelesiuvalymas.lt/i/File/8504815638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infiniteprospects.com/FCKeditor/file/liluvazidowidesuvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfhotel.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nitutuxoregan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4977bf47b---44413229227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/jawesujofuputowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7f7951090---dizafoxoxilibefajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608678ebe1c1c---17342141889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/utqegnrj3o0sbq0o1p42t6p065/69200820837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tarzminder.com/resimler/files/98645230319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc6bf0e613---sumugesozelolodimiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607140f1d25b7---kulufujaroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/85506218532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remproekt-m.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5405346091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=beyond+the+blue+horizon+reading+answerPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012768.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12768 30908 bytes
SHA-256: 1d2b43923206fab0d2c44a5f5224647c7e7130fa30616e96db5c243ba8228067
font_01_sfnt_off00016279.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16279 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 849e091dbb53066b47a200d9c5f5d2a1803c874243d8ce327996eb02e058bc13
font_02_sfnt_off00017c22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00019431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19431 102184 bytes
SHA-256: e4a6b9053e838f1d759e0aa50f65ba6472644bd37446f750847cc420733f67d1