Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c674ebd68e6e7238…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 10:01:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 887a5ff0b33b79f3ec60f60d57df8667 SHA-1: 6f69d8be711a537249114d4a34bfa2b306eb30ac SHA-256: c674ebd68e6e723893de97eef25ff8344533ea7addcfb4de20fb8786f4d066f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, with numerous distinct hosts and URLs pointing to PDF files. The presence of external URIs and the compromised CMS upload link farm suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a67b7a304---lubuluje.pdf
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vmlk9dga6imvpl6etefjrp1q0/32909802159.pdf
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745b3d8940b---lodosa.pdf
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/wixinedazukewi.pdf
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb6bb3561dabc19585c5758848620544/26946120615.pdf
    • http://namngonviet.vn/user-/files/jaludibuwozodikajuxewiper.pdf
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/wakuvazidalexej.pdf
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/zedabafo.pdf
    • http://mintaialuminum.com/d/files/getotipujajiwedaritejuza.pdf
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7v993abpijphjfauhqv451i37/8032228236.pdf
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17ktvtalntki1rrgaghn7uo2d1/luwokuwigavabod.pdf
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720cbf355bb---jujojipejiwosonamijir.pdf
    • https://btsmstlucia.com/atomicsteps/upload/userfiles/file/difolemunedovirewumege.pdf
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbc2c166c6646e5dd0447f112c6c7e5f/89118022087.pdf
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079172d3c2b9---wujoteruponope.pdf
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/17725194539.pdf
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/25534904495.pdf
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/mosetawaxasosubi.pdf
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lf1ubn6is808unrk877s9trkg1/67302808154.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/limakekudamezewufen.pdf
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6ae1520656---48037753417.pdf
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/25670992306.pdf
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c389c1c6796---90395993152.pdf
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f27c379a02e6e11c55a50162655d5d16/6719960010.pdf
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/242236316448.pdf
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797f86d6ed3---49145563835.pdf
    • https://sieompaysdebray.fr/lesiom/txt/imgadmin/file/22972436660.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=real+time+operating+system+mcq+with+answers
    • 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_off00010642.bin
9ec546f1333dbf662aae8527a39864c07e0a0d8631721dfab6135580856ba125
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10642 18608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013731.bin
17eb1b3738bdfd2c6f11545eb6e83e8878790e56e9b78e0a5a24808af9d41499
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13731 11212 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015106.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15106 16792 bytes