Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06160188059f5a04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 10:19:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0e1895fc381cc8f7bbd45edd2bb8d1e6 SHA-1: 077a98e8c2d1128a8946791735df071821aab69f SHA-256: 06160188059f5a044f074dcbc8f7121de34eb5186a925c14f98779ec131a55cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated high maliciousness. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure suggests it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbj5dog31p9df05mb7so20e6t6/tebabajunawimaworu.pdf
    • http://csc028.com/userfiles/file/20210703125625_7jc6c5.pdf
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67701d420032d2fb77499ee55bf2f296/55306292269.pdf
    • http://tomaszskiba.com/userfiles/file/19424280508.pdf
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0c793324b---18216107884.pdf
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de81b3184c9---zoxowix.pdf
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bf3g1ordjn94clf7oq60t4ivf/poxobiwifen.pdf
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/61902608789.pdf
    • http://gw73patriots.com/clients/1/1e/1ed986c9d410becccfd9995a8318e329/File/rikanukudutowabos.pdf
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/wupelamonororazuve.pdf
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22339d96dd9ce2db93f60c1b4e3385df/75136093402.pdf
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcd918272f7a0448ada4385e5dd0fdf2/96105722783.pdf
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03ad4ee5ec---41138947990.pdf
    • http://dailycan.com/userfiles/files/juvexepu.pdf
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles//file/68597744172.pdf
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6576ac146f---jakusotu.pdf
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b77c5ed2c---ranizu.pdf
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8a3f2eb91ecc81b21e0ad2cdfb9c04a/92470715179.pdf
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/pepitidexawukunoxikomuzuj.pdf
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e5dd3032fc155000c77d1f2e986fbad/3050878277.pdf
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/24393594001.pdf
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/bipiminimoganidodejitig.pdf
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad3fa77a310---legurexen.pdf
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d96e1cdeddea432f6d343935ce91d655/revepuwi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=6ft+to+inches
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/886a9ecccf880ac64d9ea44dd48d43f0/foxizivizomugofuritorox.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_off0000ffaa.bin
5f102cfe603aa1809aad9fa5bfbc85860d2b1c7ab647c9d2a6e343d786c67f23
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFAA 17488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012d51.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D51 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014568.bin
5ee4e2ed0a22479b83ceceafba3f56d43f0476dadd5483996a3079ca661adc32
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14568 10196 bytes