Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a860516798ece122…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-19 15:35:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 23bef7679b1d35619672228ce375e713 SHA-1: 4277c0003dd50e7415614d15e03abf46ad96bcf2 SHA-256: a860516798ece122653d15f303bfdca09c2ee0cefdf1b8bfe84588b5b47a2b4a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic confirms the nature of the document as a link farm on potentially disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kohmrqqu76h9tmumbt2hrc7u32/60223409551.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/26644962516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62831406475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e0f122707c44f7337b6f6c8f5b56c14/legurarigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b482748accf---zojujosalavimimalowetuloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f72ba5debd---zesotabufaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7269d5c4cef7f27af40492e617100dfe/11669677033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/nunixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinocorporatechallenge.com/clients/6216/File/lamibotoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/811adec42cedd51e93c79a711147aa60/kefuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plnjl.com/userfiles/files/lufurepogudez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solener.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutoroke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b3b2975dc4407034fb2817af6c3f665/domuduzatifojepunoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67bf48d3adc8b7385fd82f944acc1d3f/nibiwajezixeboxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/xipunarunomawenatava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e5dbc036e---lanezisimezudijowuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyland-nsk.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78883007611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77ecaa8162---tojusamadaxavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa6e0f305e---60017995728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/331453c504fba12bc2d49a3da4cf2cfe/zukituwukenuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f1170fb27---41791962519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2af26d3609---60689900531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a939e73eb00ad3d1701c70f56c91f25e/35029531028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blankheich.de/images/uploads/file/gotitemiditukunipotafovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-sign.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97669521190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=will+god+bless+me+with+a+childPDF 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_off0000ebd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD5 10832 bytes
SHA-256: f229a72c0f5a2a4de8e606c5c7fc128909c9a2a0d5847d137a961b4d57956eed
font_01_sfnt_off000104a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A9 16960 bytes
SHA-256: 05ebe59f295110656833d8046da72a77011ead6348391b267ff1849805baa2e3
font_02_sfnt_off00013103.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13103 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1