Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de587f8a6d9b94be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-08-21 12:33:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dd6bc7308cbc3a92ab88ec7738f97169 SHA-1: b26cb72050cfd1aba53ac1c8a3eba29ffa432208 SHA-256: de587f8a6d9b94be9621ba2238584851822740a2027fa4bccddd2e5d23cc222a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true destination and evade detection. The presence of these link farms indicates a phishing or redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/napawonesigiwogexat.pdf
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1pmi30ld5b4ul6siu6citqo0j6/xiwowa.pdf
    • https://www.cittadelmiele.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf011a968298db04492f69a9f4852531/sugedogabujosilaved.pdf
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/goraxuzurekosixebonigaw.pdf
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f17caac061---koradopaz.pdf
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b84787353d---zanutizasavapi.pdf
    • http://yljczl.com/uploadfile/20210821040925238.pdf
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e8fe292d80---11524641025.pdf
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8569cd97a---jodanigabi.pdf
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ccbfc235f6---miredakuzojimafopuvoze.pdf
    • https://topupdana.com/contents//files/61862742095.pdf
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07497a06b542bcd446b128b8eecd2641/13414317671.pdf
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092d738d72ca---13246711502.pdf
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/9681071596.pdf
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4beb4053f2096d6ca25ee1d44e03a39f/48709063266.pdf
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a0d76cad74744d60f6b477b42b143b0/42606559533.pdf
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/97663880900.pdf
    • http://movesearchesuk.com/userfiles/file/80611090604.pdf
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/stfr2klg8ll8dq5mugp683pa5l/nazabuxop.pdf
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b67cb43ca9da0baf62954259eb5cdcb/13717007817.pdf
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/kuzatowamome.pdf
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5ca8d5cc0---ketedijit.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=formato+de+bit%C3%A1cora+de+obra+para+descargar
    • 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_off0000db20.bin
5577d867956bce4ca241608713e1c3291af27d9ac94f18fe82cc5abf9302f022
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB20 17420 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000106f1.bin
c958e768b136bae057e63c861f2db334c76af361284084ba858ca2db6bc3f6d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F1 11004 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011fb7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB7 16792 bytes