Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6e8456542a7b747…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-09 00:15:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 84b98ab1b449520767710a35d8e5b06b SHA-1: fc959d43ae7e7b044af6b385c2bc946f30110d83 SHA-256: b6e8456542a7b747de949dc01c9af0d812db11587af8eb878f9e3587a7c0af96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this PDF is part of a phishing campaign, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=charlie+and+the+chocolate+factory+original+characters
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c863ca9390---98171433235.pdf
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c18a273d0d68a07daa12774782a1beb9/fuvobew.pdf
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985ea8cda59---doruxufide.pdf
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/63574156367.pdf
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8103c3667---73385925746.pdf
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/vumetemetixu.pdf
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oobopgj9u3a6080qcf8ir0fevu/bilefoloramujakifivat.pdf
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9a08b7492---57800917239.pdf
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/84123410311.pdf
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8737e12c5a---65102879285.pdf
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753bbf26db6---86095924587.pdf
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895207cb26f---nivudusobegegaxek.pdf
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/534cc80360b9cdc25b3606ccdd564430/53853871372.pdf
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985c1bc4c4c---4185522666.pdf
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/mujevuzawinedir.pdf
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608875f46cf18---janoveratoven.pdf
    • https://vate-tire.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9feb7fd2f273081d43905ad1711a7b0/23473904860.pdf
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085739c7862a---44711107980.pdf
    • https://annekienlen.fr/imagesfile/ritewa.pdf
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/43931139995.pdf
    • http://sarlampa.ru/upload_picture/97217677987.pdf
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd26084592---20389778564.pdf
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/gonedibazariwaduxadubu.pdf
    • 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_off0000fd77.bin
b044402c21ad74073bbf4a7e313597083fb7949d4e07067f25dc49456ea5a52a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD77 17688 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012af1.bin
696e078e07e0c4cea6f76a0346a6fcdb09676006a15e88699201eacee45caa49
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF1 10900 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000143f5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143F5 16792 bytes