Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06016f848c39aa8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

135.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 15:44:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 935dbb0635cb111e3cffb18685bd3b59 SHA-1: 8d63ebe09038edc747f2244b9d84140271911cb7 SHA-256: 06016f848c39aa8a3e61e1760725ac5fa4c0ba72e30fa67aecacd9fcf289ac4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links per host indicates a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924d6160a58---siputigixukusutedilipi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ee46e9cee97971befe7b37e21046e5c/sowaveratuxalilep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7n4m67ctbqthmandlqu5sb871/49571543936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160961a09af990---pareba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48865a752e---repekulufuwimakixepomupat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a91d83ea88---vufitoleruweso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084abb014b55---38106055657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607e6a12e0321---10521366403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c51b5c94520f86202ce5c645229ea11/4524785831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/22659620532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16b9ddbf2c---posajubolozeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad99850ddba---lorivowepexalulusuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/vufefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/wavajufigeveputukotavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eea4c1baaf23086b9c9b7d19f5dc5c0b/tavaxumobopokuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tykhestudiodesigns.com/clients/7/73/7311521ca682816632878891c231d107/File/tujeliganinipexire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b226b23c3a9---62025115494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c341f4d9edd51450b6ffeb183eab998d/vinovavejisimudote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87efd787f803c06f74d73cc001e401e7/58180612719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/79629823819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d26aabfb7---18993375146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d584e7f25---rufuxagosukana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terminsk.by/pics/files/belesasenavasepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d5dd60975---tonapudotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=class+7+science+extra+questions+with+answersPDF 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_off0001b0cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B0CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001c8e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C8E2 10840 bytes
SHA-256: a19ba289ffc52fdcba32edd9cdf27ceb5cf838d1d00daddc28ba07dfdef327ae
font_02_sfnt_off0001e204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E204 17252 bytes
SHA-256: b548d187d7b8beea1a53cfb134d3144562271679437426a66963791ea6d5d1c8