Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e96efa67615e9617…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-08-04 05:53:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 690037b7d2268210b79c16c2d93cd2ee SHA-1: bc0da903db7812dd6e811b91b5c0c07ab1c36d33 SHA-256: e96efa67615e9617230ec21d7669ef797fa0e65585427e4065b8673f1712371d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file 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 numerous distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress upload directories. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM firings strongly suggests an attempt to obscure malicious destinations or leverage compromised infrastructure for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/35828141706.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc57c35142---rigovisagesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jgc6br8fju324frmh5jf59luk6/77202711178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluiettgriffinwilliams.org/clients/2/2a/2accc941c041fffeac9751862bb8fe41/File/femage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b290e91ca8b8cde60bc0c4075c727e84/20695586009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rthk2s26m2m95rtii46fvkvo0k/ginejuwelinetosopiviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a0dc541833b9e48fb7a548e2acbac18/11457735430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://douzonebnf.com/upload/file///42742002041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamexmarket.com/uploads/files/fipafuvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrumbiznesurawicz.pl/userfiles/file/38329419505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a5productions.com/home/a5pro/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97127216295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/42710374320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weekendtripskolkata.com/userfiles/file/sikepixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/mekiwovuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0f3ec44f86d2d0ba6e7397523aa1e5b/ximitat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607173465ba46---masokoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c649531cf3---67376911820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krikrik.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/robugaxerig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/32150414797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0acbfb4808ab4f243b37b31f5e9e5216/95036044219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93beunca4v762jfg117ejo2rh1/49202718316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/70524982143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://springkasteelhuren.be/userfiles/file/bigerumuzofil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69d889fd1658e164cf937a09918c634c/mijigumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto826.com/uploads/files/10209341876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=sequencing+worksheets+6th+gradePDF 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_off0000f1a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A7 17276 bytes
SHA-256: ab148965c04a225d683029543c75eb7ce49a1513fa0321853454babc077175fd
font_01_sfnt_off00011f08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F08 11272 bytes
SHA-256: ea46c5c7e2e79673e7d9be021ab83ca5c42b7817edd46a6c16e4f538f744aca6
font_02_sfnt_off00013908.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13908 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1