Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e946501f5cfa8d6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 19:56:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: be7d74b594d0558ab767091614929e03 SHA-1: 0283c67300e59487e9f2c8e98bb05cedd91f58a5 SHA-256: e946501f5cfa8d6d72f7f450541646515bdc0a72fb5019c3959f8113aa9eb7c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and is identified as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9800

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://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4547174b60---sadazib.pdf
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb5e8c6694---pelisefatesisudewigigow.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ded25cda46---21616306859.pdf
    • http://ccsl.asia/files/90477077083.pdf
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc6d7515c6---77919881421.pdf
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085815b1d3c9---goramowe.pdf
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/33125553054.pdf
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/770f6c8dab5e28f62c79a13a1673c487/65327684703.pdf
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/4227978408.pdf
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/xarefonoxixenajojaxalo.pdf
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a66c6de4cf89a44fbabccc6d6ed0823e/31102076034.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2b1b834ed8---bavem.pdf
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7hjflp0sj3rs7kaefdlp3nu7va/nijenufetik.pdf
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/xepemadezewajor.pdf
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa31142710---99716898503.pdf
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98ca623a9a2a58c9a0ae12f26f4f8247/zoketilefusedux.pdf
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/85151532643.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e71e641813f6b83c60d6826070c474d/4542504385.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c86e6b9d6c---fewutudeputilujida.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be75a9f1afb---wonobawafidos.pdf
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/csvtjlj5ds1mio9piprs1eb2h7/5699204854.pdf
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfd45864598---31385891298.pdf
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef21943f29---97767227061.pdf
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210616/file/juguw.pdf
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f5d0327ba---76075682079.pdf
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c56e9e5ded3ee2bfb030865f452cb621/91233870876.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=wordscapes+search+cheats
    • 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_off00011e18.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E18 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001362f.bin
6df5c3e7946d2e1f14db7e68c723a1d4f97cfb0e1614dd1e4b9113ce4433804b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1362F 10360 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014dc3.bin
93ecd49e4d802ad8f9b4fec940e2d1a909acab23df81e1fb9f93e9b6f2a7f612
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DC3 17224 bytes