Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 006e0474ccae3d9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 11:44:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5f50730940ce855a79227b2ac74b5c3d SHA-1: 15916a59b1ee9638d97336402b89dc9ae9368a7a SHA-256: 006e0474ccae3d9c436388e5f596b2f8666ab2a764598e3dbfc288e3f037f68d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bfee3c553---6346749488.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da5f92a879---zamotipanowujivoromoron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/59823235908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5f2adb42a4---deweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landpas.pl/upload/file/lowalufapepuxonawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c49cf3b0fb822cc3a42497d7b42e9e6/podutel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-district.org/userfiles/file/20431898978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa80d660e53---nibegerafutovabumoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/nejelifikezuziserutemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210601100033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b32a01048---busomilajijetewupizepame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hochrainer-elsner.at/upload/files/3339254949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17fe72e48c17c5553a4a08876dc13663/79199906598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfsupremesa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lulabapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eebf2712ceb21a27c10027aab57bdcff/9303627791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4r5qddqk23l8b3iloo8onbg11u/12986112048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f44f522907---90141619903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/gigotelegilidikafususalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/46205912257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/zaguxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b650f10f0d---83325290046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=welding+objective+type+questions+answers+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f015.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF015 17416 bytes
SHA-256: 084d3cdead8d4a2b77de93c09b309a8f6b14d0d54372cc7457a5c95920fcabfa
font_01_sfnt_off00011d34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D34 11572 bytes
SHA-256: 9b66f5393f35a631f783e27d5b09bdd9281251113b8b2366e6c7ce07517bb535
font_02_sfnt_off00013812.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13812 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1