Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8c6e2d518e87eab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:46:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3984e6b75c626e617ff2f7a5f37886ff SHA-1: a41866b108bc2a3b6f84f16e45547da9ad0b62fd SHA-256: d8c6e2d518e87eab3205c910056b18087972dac75c6f49c46d87ac3753670358
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, with the primary technique likely being Spearphishing Attachment, as the PDF itself serves as the lure. The embedded URLs are the main indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/43027200361.pdf
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d27358544aa---84119673387.pdf
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdef22b47d---31943153531.pdf
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/6393374487.pdf
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811928865d0---94300786472.pdf
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5abf27469---bodotubefulumivanetegun.pdf
    • http://wchs65.org/clients/b/bb/bb65574a37642f7fe3135935df861e67/File/93740922804.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q562b8jv6fhmjhhm496qt64op8/lemesurati.pdf
    • https://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/ninev.pdf
    • http://abw10thstreetne.com/uploads/files/kelirovizujud.pdf
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/vobaxifupefosakebu.pdf
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dab55b3aa7f73db6ee823e3959cc7de8/duxugunomova.pdf
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1b082ffc9---20000543056.pdf
    • http://dj-venci.com/uploads/pages/files/34310920220.pdf
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3fa1182126---61191776832.pdf
    • http://topas.lt/userfiles/file/wabukujadurubunuwof.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898b36dd0f1---41893610600.pdf
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084547d0a2e0---89677117541.pdf
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61f6934cdf5dd243c762904edbe7691a/newojodugitaxebe.pdf
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f455ca4cf---21202420824.pdf
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1fvuo9hlvmujn6vou7rmm2h14/bopufatusepepiwajan.pdf
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f00ed9bd05---dobitajagivapekoziwugu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=electric+manual+transmission
    • 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_off0000f5b8.bin
264b57690df377d15eea32ceff2e3cd10b8181db82ad98849aab9cd99e5cee06
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B8 17468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001231f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1231F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013b36.bin
c1a582bdc5e7033775c23cb22817cbbb2660a2c87d7415e3447fecac646d6654
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B36 10472 bytes