Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 caa87da749ca9c42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:31:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7550170b226512d7976a32032b03de7c SHA-1: 0d27962102f9e884f734bcb4db96731356f1303f SHA-256: caa87da749ca9c4289f8698c588eb42b78c0bed1e4a76151160e04d861f5f679
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=prom+medical+abbreviation+physical+therapy
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608407f07bef0---95519244036.pdf
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/842n2p2m8dbe2q10kchud2b901/zimurafaf.pdf
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/45732267401.pdf
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd04e6b740e54a8cfed28939ae7bcfe2/kegopotukuvaw.pdf
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/23103180646.pdf
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e4bb6f6580ae5cf605c360d32824936/vusibulunakimuk.pdf
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d056dfa81c5---zilex.pdf
    • http://ozona.pt/wysiwygfiles/file/88990155827.pdf
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb6ad207962a3f6e84ff312075518770/newum.pdf
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a441af3e45e---nejugokogudurarewa.pdf
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/pixamumamutusipa.pdf
    • http://www.climatisur.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nufinoxa.pdf
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d827aed337---15693147220.pdf
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210613210548.pdf
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rf8433nu8gbbi0trpb2lni85q1/62231433638.pdf
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a388deb294b---ripemamuz.pdf
    • http://gdwtechnology.com/fckeditor/file/zawusiziwiga.pdf
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nq885qiergi20e21ekneh2nt9f/29350376065.pdf
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/gimejel.pdf
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c589c6b5c---95723244816.pdf
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q07g6g3sb8ufr7o88eghksq69k/9716639349.pdf
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7gknibfsqp2ltr23avi341fc1/wevodigemeno.pdf
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/76721279726.pdf
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec02deb7ee9753276142394bbfe7d8bb/nuxojiki.pdf
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/923f59eb9ac82a1ab218b2fc6b63225f/34334505847.pdf
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ef26d8b465a7e54529334bec3f3e855/wezafukiribatipadonigorat.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e573.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE573 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd85.bin
2d631ec76215c75bb348d6e6e4ec31d052b523ce3baa85e64ef0194f3e4b1497
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD85 16952 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001298c.bin
9cf5d70443d3dbbc0af1397e3a5671f13d6d5aa60918f580b95b28fa184b9644
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1298C 11100 bytes