Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6bc5ea262c32f8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-07-18 06:51:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e34b0bb595d76e9fda949a05355999e9 SHA-1: 1bcb2be2b4d9b36751740647224e514ebce3d203 SHA-256: a6bc5ea262c32f8f135100b619a11a13c29ffe0ee31231a1647f8ff237ac8585
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages, a common tactic for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb35ca316c---mawumitasenularim.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3ece6f7f2---61789802766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bv8agpqlsum588g6j0eark1do/75332566979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/16360445694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99b53998af5d99ca871eb3e0ee1fab01/fumutiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0a501686c---63088948164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15e337ff34da03b68aa44eaef1c02b67/36282120048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a57c3178e4ba1db16f2c34473249025/rivugubisavuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b5c2466c18770d45cd63228d0f602aa/judofefaxedugibimiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liddellgaryfamily.com/clients/863293/File/kevabexokilurugutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtowniagrafit.pl/userfiles/file/vipujidurito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61t5t5f5l522ttbngpa9fipdk5/94372698597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b53681d21e---walopegodowavonebipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/titabikuzoxemadet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e2a6468a9d5c2d0601da3f92d892dd7/75524938177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c38b682ed---maletavufoguxigikomobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d07e37a077---fovowawenasebuvog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloucesterclassof81.com/clients/23558/File/dagoxujigegak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b52l2i3am4i7fhlb8l5p39ksm1/dexejofirunumewutunazeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700a910f2e4---rimude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietrocknet.org/app/webroot/img/files/68174663933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/13766759263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=bud+not+buddy+rules+to+live+byPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e30c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE30C 17216 bytes
SHA-256: 2a1dab5d035ab209fae4330d315388f40da1ca1adb6582d9aeb240c944e8698f
font_01_sfnt_off00011026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11026 10552 bytes
SHA-256: ee278f75b81fabe7148dde3e61b47f9b094803d42436af9ec592b27b547b4fb3
font_02_sfnt_off00012864.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12864 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1