Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6a5d899ab141977…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 16:01:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 046b50836703295d3f84b7d58f368497 SHA-1: 1906c252754e3a75a44c05e719576805d1bb42e8 SHA-256: c6a5d899ab141977986374ef2d23b63b8f601f42fc3ebfcc86062ba12aee35f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to external resources hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis suggest a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aebb43270b4---kutijubapebupirofev.pdf
    • http://sqx.cc/upImgFile/file/20210513161433.pdf
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac588rdu7lmlohdm6nuvcj631l/lodiradobut.pdf
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/pigijoludixewowevu.pdf
    • http://antoniolescio.net/userfiles/files/99395385384.pdf
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c79a5cc7aaaefd88b7396e13c90581e3/36464035048.pdf
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/17709220298.pdf
    • http://kozszemle.hu/uploads/files/80470582821.pdf
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897330b3509---81567088959.pdf
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097a5dfb2833---10037772456.pdf
    • http://iwilldoit.ru/uploads/files/files/sototemigomakagepufi.pdf
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2phhkpa56pjja6b2ts5363bsc/zujoramedisoka.pdf
    • https://www.letspassdriving.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fj12h6vsvbevm6mk0074f63n9/92049307349.pdf
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cec2e9b9d2fc28778ad97d81f94072c/18060497064.pdf
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba68bc8fc7c---gavimotebovupopes.pdf
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/17518815859.pdf
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/menakigukofavotare.pdf
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b88efb92099---57689264417.pdf
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8482a3b240bc76da2d3a06db28bf3e5/zutotugimujadixesotuga.pdf
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a51794ee2de---divuzuv.pdf
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93140c1df5f398777d3eacfad4ddd5ea/58392137150.pdf
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c983fab724b---94493393242.pdf
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa4aad6ba2---bisilibovinanagirevube.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=history+ee+examples
    • 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_off0001016f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1016F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011986.bin
ee02a68f8edf44fda5e2f2cc59536356bbb100e06e8f634c1e5d80f568f65cae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11986 10516 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013187.bin
47968baf9ae8213fbb9ad28cc942cd5f6d3171c93cb54f3c5dad61d75d47fd60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13187 17336 bytes