Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6f4f77bfa31e717…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 18:56:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 93d4b6a80e6dbc8ebdd44011350ce63b SHA-1: d8891e291e6297439d21e0ae61a3db06ecec536d SHA-256: f6f4f77bfa31e717bc13896f995aad44aa907739e17ecac509c413f8006a0f57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as phishing or a trojan. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870bf122286---31048948542.pdf
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c023d86ebd7ef4f401137c3bfd752a2/foligoriwobuvufepiz.pdf
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/radorobivebir.pdf
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/654298442.pdf
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bebff2a9738---lopisirubuvupubopoti.pdf
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819ae8984f7---10566069017.pdf
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826087d3a36---newakovu.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909708efeca---57115714650.pdf
    • https://bliznacite.com/files/1476155113.pdf
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/busakijuwimomanigexetutig.pdf
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54afa31f59---79634425408.pdf
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/behq7b2lgngehnkg5kesu1jh47/jorujirekiv.pdf
    • http://brandweeramsterdamamstellanden.nl/userfiles/file/pivuwezinubefemugeraw.pdf
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021050307340073499.pdf
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcfac647868---voxinul.pdf
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6i0f55k9rt63a0tjult3aaa4sh/puxenijosapajiwidu.pdf
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2fu9tkkc2f5p0vhitdaiisis4/rivewedunebo.pdf
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/sumorozanugexegisar.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607190745e7c1---25622477219.pdf
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ncadtghp2hurl8a37sup2ourb/xefibipipugafagutisebe.pdf
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d4c242c6b7e338afce13d033821cdcc/sawupinesanazo.pdf
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b880b2878ce---78421605853.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+space+between+us+book+pdf
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2943e98ee2---guxavazozonepago.pdf
    • 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_off0000f0e9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E9 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000108fb.bin
0d0c143efd480a8496f89b2243ee1f221365c36c06b978f9465d1c8cc5cc701a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108FB 17952 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013763.bin
ba10c267f5071c01741ab28d4518e3169666d61f19702766eeaa6dae4033a059
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13763 10860 bytes