Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4f6856aa018f318…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 11:53:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f45eb66fa3a23e136a878271d5a8f799 SHA-1: 1a3716c5b537d1803cdcf0cf75f286538cc5faa5 SHA-256: f4f6856aa018f3183143612b39ff37b260c269269f6e25823528a40f76b3015c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a downloader or redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094005c778db---majexazokuluw.pdf
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607112a8a24e1---78451887160.pdf
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9837e715e7---motomar.pdf
    • http://benetalent.com/upload/files/62716287678.pdf
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/7743990480.pdf
    • http://ristoranteibucanieri.it/userfiles/files/63645418087.pdf
    • https://werbemittelag.ch/upload/file/nobisafizuvedobu.pdf
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/suxejizet.pdf
    • http://xn--aknmedikal-yub.com/uploads/file/80145543341.pdf
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/31334738858.pdf
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607972f36b424---luzejofamejum.pdf
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/62877481279.pdf
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad58ed5cd06---81940866694.pdf
    • http://manninareunion2012.com/clients/0/03/03b30fdf9aaeeba733afadbef254ff7b/File/6256199431.pdf
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609401d77a983---84417306453.pdf
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35se4slvji01e7c1c5sfqlkrlr/83472749068.pdf
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/2241524562.pdf
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b45e9ffd4---43923749607.pdf
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c420e5c31e---68578347082.pdf
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/33639298083.pdf
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc6ffa44ca---rerixomu.pdf
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/dofiroruwidoxiridu.pdf
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/rirodoto.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096212607cd8---72573990736.pdf
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a4458e67e8ca01ae1774913ff675422/junusej.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=hyperplasia+without+atypia+treatment
    • 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_off000127c5.bin
362ecdaa25dfedf277632399966f7a9998149b14aba084643f40c48ad3a3e65a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127C5 10808 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014083.bin
e5d8cac85cbe9d0c430c7ed3dea1401ff1359624703d927400981fd64b4c3661
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14083 17348 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016df8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16DF8 16792 bytes