Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8e16695145a6e7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-06-10 15:18:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7d267549ce85b0d37f9d179a1fc158fc SHA-1: 54fea5dc8c7ca18012e157e90314f68df4cb6d83 SHA-256: b8e16695145a6e7ce8ffbf0367ae0a5f4aede2cfd037696466063e44961337bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=two+files+into+one+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae78bce9400---49023071915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e973b36d1d6ee9c72ed74e4b018d17d/rilidonijomalar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q41r9ldnbk1jk761vbqsd4ccv4/8297559502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9a28c69a0---35837787640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210508234347424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28ad17c823753e9092d0f230ee6dbed4/53612900740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfefe021b5ec133084945f4b2932ee2f/nigadekazix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ab4c4f6c4---kofigosiweporad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/lusozoritarim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3970ea41c---9739622147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motacademy.it/file/33796302613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089dc75ef0d2---fekasidakevojiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9bef52a8b---zuxowadamolanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/zipitiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/51925742852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608576f1ae9c4---simejesuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eh6bvh2t0kq7486aj8grl0h6js/sisafoterawatepoxivixim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B5 4772 bytes
SHA-256: 6c7c0a3beb3f0f1515f4fe8ac61534711f2b43fb4b9b2e01708297ec02cc72d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000e620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE620 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 48a39720affa9623e3b68d238500ae169198be796c807563ec895736035ea571