Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc61f7621ab13c90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 22:33:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 55ef2e954faceb4ca3a3606048ec64a6 SHA-1: fdd7e3cde241052dc774a11467459211216d5a4c SHA-256: fc61f7621ab13c904106f3625a50cceaa282414d94c31699efbee7c469e90f83
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86e1cf45443dde9e6d6aa4489d3f9d68/36194545556.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/58906403160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf7f773e31---69455181001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t7k3n41gereus8dp18a010lf8c/3620536572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2259af1c7c---80013881671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607659ab50677---41901735417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stihoplet.by/upload/editor/files/63058784507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbb3faabf6---sunokakomulewadovavanivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4f93ec5cdc9ca077c64a00736d06de6/fizisadufadigevukupoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f01962371e4b73c603654c7974d2038/69508613358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/vasazoxegajesijimuvoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/xadaneguvarosojudave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h3nuvd6iecvi48gf3qoeda2j6r/kupaziginefurifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097efa8bbd48---10103265867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f565206e6c---voxanibavakujidosoposuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/5242245745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/398897e4fb037d7d369b6806b634a74e/56268924813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/kosunutarezetagegaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurempat.com/contents//files/zajitebixufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/winanon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/pibisetufefesolujelex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adj2e9ltjhgcegvi9k1r7ha8oe/37007621959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=civic+virtue+examplesPDF 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_off0000f46a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46A 16844 bytes
SHA-256: 091c58c3e0e8b9930844a623a868281dc9421338e58ff3c7a80dbd88202a9eab
font_01_sfnt_off0001206b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1206B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013882.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13882 10612 bytes
SHA-256: a34336dbd7625a2105131943426c191d732989d9f686d2a567309ac33838d315