Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6cd2f732f5f4bae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 13:55:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d3050698844f47b32d6470ce441c3b44 SHA-1: f92b25db4fd3e53637cb7e4a47f05701c4f9b377 SHA-256: e6cd2f732f5f4bae11eae418e4d6c1abfdf95ab2f501f0195317823926d343cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and other unknown hosts. These links are likely used to host phishing pages or distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cc7aab9c93---xitopijukelonirut.pdf
    • https://longislandinvestmentadvisors.com/nini/userfiles/file/70256132415.pdf
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135248e97021---gekapeviragufejere.pdf
    • https://butzbacher.turnpoint.jo/app/webroot/upload/files/19171019870.pdf
    • https://cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46773619419.pdf
    • http://www.ssc-ras.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nopofodetawiwa.pdf
    • https://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/78664462832.pdf
    • https://aahs.givingplan.net/sites/default/files/editor/file/pumivujogedivaweberukewez.pdf
    • http://di-tech.kr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/95900945477.pdf
    • http://okna-kurska.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/1476196307.pdf
    • http://jurabos.nl/include/editor/file/nijirajovorijepevubujojol.pdf
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/080bb1c0cf663dfb9ec4a635d3a53124/94260644676.pdf
    • http://minhanh.com/files/zozaniduximerobazi.pdf
    • http://kartinatv.org/uploads/files/napirubifagozoxusixuti.pdf
    • https://maintogelonline2.bet/contents/files/jowixagejudanitawuwip.pdf
    • http://lifecare4all.com/upload/files/ponodadefizidatadimek.pdf
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55551716645.pdf
    • https://alcoquimicos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6747991879.pdf
    • http://9jamail.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/boxawidadotajenuwaja.pdf
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/zababunadolodukemur.pdf
    • http://pooq-design.com/app/webroot/fckfiles/file/segemina.pdf
    • http://fishngrill.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/sobebugati.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=display+carrier+name+on+status+bar+android
    • 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_off0000bc38.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC38 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d44f.bin
3376996f0afc28d6c3f029548af8bad8d984e11741bfbe2100c798ad52f55815
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD44F 11028 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000edbd.bin
a99ea82b533e832decca65d0e8d47227bd9ead18ea7c4514db93e05c0a6a5bc9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDBD 16364 bytes