Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 006276db5005b2ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.3 KB Created: 2021-08-01 05:43:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 00244be37ab144ee569de9dee18995bb SHA-1: ced87540f9b6cfff32f3f2dcd3668bab1e470aaa SHA-256: 006276db5005b2ac7798b2629e1518caf41519ef60eb4394b675db5840b85216
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this is a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, likely exploiting PDF vulnerabilities or serving as a dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9962

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://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc5768be3c---fatuvolumaxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sd5n70hi0isnadgs7npikv0su3/82322371227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoop.legreniervert.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51251388450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4e7d6a74b---8282480669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1cf9599e1d---dezezetafima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16dd5173a6---47957790762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teeintact.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/file/1333032107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zahradysnapady.cz/soubory/files/9893922568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gfbsfvd9vrc6iltiovlr1bcj52/78488646331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef05de711c---24647529111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f71920a58---77014271312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/flcfsbn83begmk3gdq7s0l77em/bimafiwofidolonadalazak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/nukasedowogunonejijuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775d0f1c1c8---76713518027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcc6dsfb8n8hjl39fp108ntsud/20370478791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/vamuxezekamida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1c3c44fe7---rudukowaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609252db1d05a---wezunajexida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hataylezzeti.com/resimler/files/rutarivifipetigesiliweze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwm-quanta.com/upload/files/sofazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pieseautocomenzi.ro/userfiles/file/87480163937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ba5c44c27---jibaluxosavapuwejiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school15-tyumen.ru/f/99485880115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/kowemesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=engineering+drawing+symbols+chart+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001625b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1625B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00017a6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17A6D 18124 bytes
SHA-256: 7c844c0b9beb6689e65e439442dd84bd9f157e2203f0ecd50217820a446c18b7
font_02_sfnt_off0001a9eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A9EB 11392 bytes
SHA-256: b886c47a4980305e912b0a66fa09be8c4fa52037ed10c802474a69c33d451def
font_03_sfnt_off0001c431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C431 16320 bytes
SHA-256: 9d38e1d9265b41fac95feecb1dbd222f7cd02244219ce4819cc90a7dae31b71d