Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a75e961385f67d94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 04:00:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 10d440906d04895fe4f27e6a8edb5de4 SHA-1: 2886fe864e248bc7e54f42a71918ed0a271bc18e SHA-256: a75e961385f67d94cfb64681620708d44494e61c985d8cb1ee72f25be667e6f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm on disposable hosting, and ClamAV detected it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content hosted on compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d917e9de37b9efbb7aa81f55ca9eaaf/87378768544.pdf
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/58843228432.pdf
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c34e467f56e---59546043882.pdf
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad46c42d3772c4f5a75d80f15df92da1/dexisudojutadamufi.pdf
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07be7abe94697eeea41fd380ba10e3e5/fugawuxubowo.pdf
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6c6dd1936feaeed90c71725fe5fde38/xisogudozupugukobuxake.pdf
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/janhdl7pot2pops1hjb5aleah1/kesolafekalutivamuvixu.pdf
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1173f6c5a3c5e27706d69ecf0192ea40/72455830753.pdf
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a945df23fd8---28143159287.pdf
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25c65a635a---52453952826.pdf
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b47585114---44348988401.pdf
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/88988649106.pdf
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092464072206---70484210624.pdf
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/88953978076.pdf
    • http://huucodatlanh.com/userfiles/file/91971572466.pdf
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05baecb013fee2ec67641830170338d9/gigunaf.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c460aa508f2---fapepafolutawesef.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ri1cn4er4kl4ku1malqqqvrds/5061710366.pdf
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/6663785939.pdf
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/435t2bsf34guj1hirhd7ihljso/sorameloputesaxuzilutu.pdf
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb5afdd927---lojilis.pdf
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1b5fd5edb---52041747146.pdf
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f00a900f85---83872252557.pdf
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1967f89d23---33601843639.pdf
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609865c22376d---99882896779.pdf
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/17045207884.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=question+mark+exclamation+point
    • 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_off0000ff15.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF15 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011727.bin
6875168e61c8986dbefd1eaeccd7d5a13610ba40b499ae6fcbd70f053409264f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11727 21480 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014e58.bin
21e0aef149c01c6b977b85b80234753ea0bd7cc0815308015feaa12d785b5cbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E58 10888 bytes