Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd8a3d1d636f284b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 19:10:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ea0141ef22568b5dae6e170c1d7d808d SHA-1: 0658e0775a9e346e50ba8a73153c470df28caf89 SHA-256: bd8a3d1d636f284b7944249d8faac4fa7ea8284bed3996033079ff8e9ace0637
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/24269915792.pdf
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tr2ooo5ikfs9343tm563h2m2dh/74265350121.pdf
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/34547233914.pdf
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/6920762202.pdf
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dfcrf9fvkm5qkbkqnkn7loj98/95816614457.pdf
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/selisararurupurepegadutex.pdf
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/417a7a64f6f3f7302d041f072b52d812/85565968546.pdf
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f16b3ddb437533f8cde2b8f5601357b/23056305225.pdf
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/tanabidel.pdf
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48d1fd5414---57515252758.pdf
    • https://wkd-uk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8a30938f8744084775a2083cd4ed3bd/pijaxiba.pdf
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2358fbe4146977d6a63a5683fe552912/totipupuwomemojatutepudov.pdf
    • http://crm333.com/documentos/file/dadigumesurewefigim.pdf
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsblam3p7v6t3n2l7r83blb940/64902662478.pdf
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e656e367b031a2362592c0131d0e690/rafedesekili.pdf
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87503bd209290267c0db98e02be0d174/50749536018.pdf
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd724a8e02---41155292749.pdf
    • https://evboosters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a5672cf98db36c7f611fbcf0c5597d0/96319685682.pdf
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pg71e0n5lq277ku8pl95qefqo0/44185455081.pdf
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15d9fbfb0197efa4431a37f7b3610b35/33364671625.pdf
    • http://ithaca1960.com/clients/8/87/874e400c25abfb160fd1c0cf9913fcd0/File/64013747680.pdf
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37592aaaa4064de9c0ac5b1933592dc5/13727708215.pdf
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edad45f1b69c8def8b24f5900e11af65/28116036798.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d4c210637---29454935674.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=why+is+a+triangle+the+strongest+shape
    • 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_off0000d79b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD79B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000efb2.bin
e8700d38d7916b07eb563fdf643ae04a397e2eb0bf569f6e025fae7ad4013845
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB2 10640 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010803.bin
fae5234b83d443b451c13bd15f7ee18546a4b602e22f4dc2d742c5688b3337d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10803 16932 bytes