Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e696c46258e05f16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 15:31:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: efa00096592c09d70fec6fe82bdd6aed SHA-1: c16271575b53deef98a123fffbde25e75e9747f5 SHA-256: e696c46258e05f1602fa7fed549e173dea859f662ca44bf9a3f895e7234041d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e87092db65d6d16d50a17da984e7f6a/19422719715.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studioaba.net/userfiles/files/50543510957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rucodelniza.ru/userfiles/file/67934382274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b7bc5fb2d---37918075503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsutiengtrung.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/50177035601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotipaldo.com/userfiles/files/fikibut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa34dc9dbe---jejutapawizepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koryosushi.com/uploads/files/kovazilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.physedu.in/newsite/userfiles/files/12076591688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c536a63a483---67905224203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qbcar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xixalekerebonozoxotene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a587b38915d---46774927509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/77184916573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57356398105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c88be4204---bazadirimexanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi-m.ru/userfiles/file/tufadozowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostoncake888.com/UserFiles/files/32288122134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-wesam.com/userfiles/files/jirowimeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaptoys.org/ckeditor/uploads/files/41206046040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28b9b7c10069b8eb997dcaff92f83be2/44707573058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sun-green.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46131354889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0emqq3a7uhh3uf3lsma9ro3vmr/23782784826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210708_03AD3723D087BEA4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3s00rbca5glknimac1m7h03av8/48425021725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae23d279c2---68552322892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=phonetics+and+phonology+summary+pdfPDF 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_off0000f6cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010edf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EDF 19596 bytes
SHA-256: 416f5cc3ca21f75108730b10f0283b34a18b103f604d6908d97bffb6746277aa
font_02_sfnt_off000141b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141B9 11280 bytes
SHA-256: f25b627d479f4b09cc0ee696ba1c2001d063128755f8e8956c45e7d1e927212a