Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e623c0cdb27d17de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 17:47:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c116f6827155121030734f1a6bfea015 SHA-1: 14377148b6b4bd0e71714b2a71e6b87a3cb31447 SHA-256: e623c0cdb27d17def8faefc1e7dfdc4e0e6e2bfa6e82906f599bd81470f8926a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple domains, several of which appear to be compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly supports maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to potentially malicious sites via a collection of links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/momesutogumidud.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kadernictvo-svetlana.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/rifegilewepuleliwosuviwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criollo-cocoa.com/userfiles/file/76966759316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuli-china.ru/d/files/lexojejuvuvulinuvamodiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergladesharvesting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gedoxomesexupun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a380f9bf27e---12575802396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guchenes.com/d/files/52251132800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caa81a0425---dujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacyfamilyunity.com/clients/2/20/203fd950dafdada58ea32e7b96f0d147/File/letafupuwiluroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/nogojuziwemenapufumagiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc-israel.ru/upload/files/48174783492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/tadozamimami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costabravas.com/uploads/localidades/files/22603029007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46ce050ec1---65929800061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2a85a5742388eed99fa8c20b7f5d28d/5257162902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c54bd0521f---wuxaxunelevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a7f22b1bc---winux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/67621016132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/loo4t59u99tasr9l1epra90dn6/26672762831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4eamb19reg28ccmnbgjame45u/likakaxapuvetatujodugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8697e4f0b---navujazewoketevamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e040c991cd8---kowawufum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/mapewuxepugiminonobixul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=pisces+man+and+taurus+woman+compatibilityPDF 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_off00011663.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11663 17144 bytes
SHA-256: 44696b1332e05863a960001ea9737fb0e208c05cb7ed66224700d38603c6fede
font_01_sfnt_off00014280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14280 11116 bytes
SHA-256: e133ad0523d4d3185d865f9f2f6483c7cd55e65c07413a2df1cff42fbfdcfc5e
font_02_sfnt_off00015c44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1