Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6f91dda1d41e636…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-08-10 23:48:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2b9a84929f7a1489a03eff4181596b08 SHA-1: cb25e59cc52f3527a20ee5b75f6c708003611dc6 SHA-256: a6f91dda1d41e636c996acc95537cfcd33d9733761a43887ad2c3a8b0609e960
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites utilizing the formcraft plugin for file uploads. These links likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609264855afe6---29763496247.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stringpoets.com/userfiles/file/xovikonajabewusugitut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hart-metale.pl/gimnazjum/userfiles/file/dababuzogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad858f4e3e3---jenifolokumigedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805c75b055a---32357056075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161011957f0aa0---81754083741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wm-meyer.de/meyer/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vasoziziti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/dowaseloxupanevide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/59721768088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728d7575a52---52165075593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a57e9c262c0---wewaxubisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610de9207c110---81514816431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af825497e22---49512487999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everettsbarbque.com/clients/b/b0/b0b566c85bab127526a414587b81487f/File/tubetixuxodetezirufajeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/2361799290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/miradebaboselixogekumupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/toq55g8g3jlln8kbdolfufobv9/82187020247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f723ed2196f578c56c290488dbedf595/tikim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd3c681c4a5---34724331785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eff0d66be6601c739f1d3dc32c1ed7dc/26443761724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uan122bb118vcf1i0egd787c9h/92000252562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb73f5e805aaf6bcf124223027fda27d/jabirepibazavuboge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsinc.co/userfiles/file/85352706382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1268b3lc7iqi23alj5kljh812e/zipomapakonut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgcuqnauphmm3rakm1o65oomm9/limotorete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=hth+green+to+blue+not+workingPDF 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_off0000f138.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF138 17924 bytes
SHA-256: a19cf4559670f6dba980d18998b080cc3a389e60fc95f377468d4855feff97f3
font_01_sfnt_off0001209f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1209F 10468 bytes
SHA-256: e62427b6b68e633418d51afd2ccd3bc05d4f7af7171ae77d9b77ea8ff660c10c
font_02_sfnt_off00013849.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13849 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1