Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b575453c4d6349cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:58:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0e7b9c1b60ee04f73e255745f5994a7d SHA-1: c6d01da1fd71d628842ed8c21ae5b0d43682a887 SHA-256: b575453c4d6349cfc1bcc230238334e7b454897b9e939bace5c9892dc0404581
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, but the presence of numerous suspicious URLs indicates an attempt to lead users to phishing or malware download sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/35812070812.pdf
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2835b0b288---jufotagasowu.pdf
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da6c540da38f0cb09168b5153026bb32/walak.pdf
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/26498222970.pdf
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/fufegasotija.pdf
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01849bc5ae7a63c4921784399ac79241/61187422838.pdf
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rfa6dtdnj5g562cd1piiqlaf4k/85541786569.pdf
    • http://holidayinntorino.com/userfiles/files/44039959096.pdf
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/11715237168.pdf
    • http://nashcentralfalcon.com/clients/d/d5/d5bea9c86035def548a020f7371d19fe/File/47172284571.pdf
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9472f38698---bonebasugo.pdf
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/15482610718.pdf
    • http://usagimatur.com/files/others/30537806444.pdf
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/wijumolibokumegasoz.pdf
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qvo71njgsgbvokd07d9lecmfln/78450101926.pdf
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/70935776078.pdf
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/jemimogu.pdf
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a597811fddb---vamunines.pdf
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764951a3c2c---91076455926.pdf
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1beslfudr7523t1svgvh2pqud/zujatetiwomadurefalitezow.pdf
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac79ea290b2---nejifogakabiwo.pdf
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/kenew.pdf
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/pebununulej.pdf
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081038b4dcdf---jijoneraw.pdf
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9d18ee4b8---kivowinadepagijazorelava.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=withholding+tax+for+professional+fees
    • 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_off0000ecb0.bin
5d1f28912241bd7bd2273675ab47d0f1eb8c4cebb3a6fcbb4fd3107bfb8837d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB0 10872 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010590.bin
856640c309445139698ff6489e72e9339c8e7ed6fc8b342954d58f1808739f9d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10590 17672 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013395.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13395 16792 bytes