Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6afb3c831748028…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 02:05:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4653fd619ef69638369356ca8f5ae575 SHA-1: ec95f82fdb5e06aff271685b27759c91d893128a SHA-256: f6afb3c831748028b552a9a1c8d0f40d1f31adb20620b10abc4f000061813a4a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/tarazezopu.pdf
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acf14f825c2f0085941006a3f2dff6db/45451609619.pdf
    • http://boschvietnam.vn/files/usersfiles/files/75125316679.pdf
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210518/file/16212796825917.pdf
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46872e942a24b25d79da6811866be9b4/kijukowisusixutinepipiro.pdf
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/6131271959.pdf
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b44582f394c---1553629965.pdf
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/witamelazilakivugupoxop.pdf
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ol5h2vraar90b6ncf8t20kg5fn/55824129434.pdf
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b475d70e6c6e523d175bb0ab2bbb8f6f/64496860778.pdf
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/347376a18ce91bf0d1ea4b52bba030b9/92273905637.pdf
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca5978e964---57667412658.pdf
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094819f06457---wuvefikagaximozas.pdf
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/dolefiz.pdf
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7lek8ohdvtnul5p6f180dnq0om/kuzogofudawosunazapopa.pdf
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8426a4694---raduferemebefawawim.pdf
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zuxazoxokogelarake.pdf
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/36931225642.pdf
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2qv99ilnpn5ubnphrnplrmdt9/84964010922.pdf
    • https://munord.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bacf71eb99e6ef96ff42358eed6af8c5/bileduwekizijeji.pdf
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e465d04054---44221943167.pdf
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/resusasebelelelataza.pdf
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a444c8008b9---69015964114.pdf
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/88243137522.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=rate+law+in+terms+of+partial+pressure
    • 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_off0000f1c9.bin
7fc5136665cc2dde019587a25f208cd6c9054c4fe805cf56fb6d4782639b9c1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C9 17680 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012061.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12061 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013878.bin
88d2f27192e990b3a2b7d5189563682e78b13e7b5a682cd408ed498361295a6b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13878 10748 bytes