Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c76af4d55628c72a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-08-06 13:21:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a6c7c9e49f7f9a1757813e73310d3723 SHA-1: ab9b61185dfea37961eac3eb9925a4da94d95734 SHA-256: c76af4d55628c72ad42c61cd46d6923f0d33710620a5103f2ae06468c038a926
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing attempts, indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+sign+up+for+kaiser+senior+advantage
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084392d451cf---xigosofivozubavugexi.pdf
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/40076923348.pdf
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/paripiwusavipajebowugo.pdf
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bffaae98217---8133763014.pdf
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/darufarasudivivonep.pdf
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6262806a5e---bipefafomesajebofafami.pdf
    • https://southafricapools.com/contents//files/42219175543.pdf
    • http://spy-military-labs.com/userfiles/file/jivegenusajavemavelatifa.pdf
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b1de2f280---58979431021.pdf
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ha5ot8avu0822mv61pdntugvk5/fevutapinadezi.pdf
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/60932008957.pdf
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/37982861265.pdf
    • http://oticonshop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mapofubasakorokaturaxozu.pdf
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/miwosefeve.pdf
    • http://e-district.org/userfiles/file/14306446492.pdf
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dc416df6108af179f45a2d4cada79a5/7253036032.pdf
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ca1d60b56---wozezejisovixa.pdf
    • http://unibeauty.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20053025258.pdf
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/6105957038.pdf
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/76992077395.pdf
    • http://geonatlife.es//ckfinder/userfiles/files/juvoditumefovamiwedutezex.pdf
    • http://kolkandkolkdesign.com/site/data/ws/files/fefajubuvid.pdf
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846144eee6b---nixolubiwanuzifikeratuwit.pdf
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d12c8b31ffdb878beca48447adc4b8f2/sosok.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebbd.bin
47272af003253c1a8d959e9966fb63c4805c23b2947048512d96f29446c26f35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBD 1988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4dd.bin
ee470ac00f39ac180978259c975eb876b87601bae2d29efdd8b261b1a7eddb58
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4DD 10960 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010e3d.bin
4010f439b997c8cd961ceaf97f748cd3199dc47d3818f3607579357b7f004b60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E3D 17748 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013d46.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D46 16792 bytes