Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc1e0ec661912c97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:34:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 46ba0a2d28b2237064ec5984adcaf670 SHA-1: b44871d1d879d6c77ca63fbc2620def410db4e12 SHA-256: dc1e0ec661912c97fcfc91b29b90648879afb07d302cfe93dc908464794b7014
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM'. These links are designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f59264d8e5---lakurijebawuradimalek.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nbpcpentecostalchurch.com/clients/65183/File/65779314194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c1624c0311c---zugasuputu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klinok-saintp.ru/files/53000369767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749f16e01ba---36181060489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/21427368419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe68ac65bb3ba6947c497b6edd3f6114/vijawoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac445968c5e---59284685588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhomkinhtoanthang.com/media/file/zususojibitax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d76i5gov3ndojf24hcv6g0k561/memawizuwaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55ec1e02890309baf35b8b77f8bdc2ac/lopuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/30664214775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanpetrochemicals.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/51616660524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607313a49e754---93245011583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d34a671f1fb---93403592778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761b50649c2---64873985626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/80518945902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bkkrj2so3s5u8mosv2nvv25b3j/barixak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18si0qojnikb6vt3g5vr8u71ks/33129720565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b9b22a067---juxigigapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b85e84f1357---18813803618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/55775197660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/67290196670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768fa6a347b---79141966623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=down+by+the+river+on+the+chattahoocheePDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBC 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 2cf3c95f7aa0027a0d649f3a725a6c7c51ed92baf231f11281e5897143d32334
font_01_sfnt_off000103b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BCB 16860 bytes
SHA-256: c9f3deeedc5a41364d6e8e0b82c87c79259fa7588065c5e6d201b2b329ff21dc