Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06198db521fd2e6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.7 KB Created: 2021-07-29 10:42:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 52012d8f844679f8596626823b12f992 SHA-1: 5c101c5d0d72e9ec13122eb3ab0c38ddafaadd9b SHA-256: 06198db521fd2e6e2c62369a29e17f612c658de25898f91430bb18d8b5d43a52
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://oasis-inwaste.asia/files/file/27355413780.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grodgolf.com/clients/f/fd/fd83fa7079552abb47853a85229f74c1/File/xagolozovexed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f3f5851075943adc28e17ce45836e9d/sarenizorazorulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ab5899a26ee24aebda4ae17f04f8762/60634188778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.org/upload/files/levojegifugigaxenunexar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5go5csvihsraf4v7v446g7moi0/51832265524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3ab2c742d---31907207144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/59799994587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d211b6d2e5---30278274962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/62270850941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3358b231db02dbb1c3d8238f490fb2b8/9618515692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f8a653d3f4---jigefinesotanibalidalad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nieruchomosci-swidnica.pl/userfiles/file/gupozopamiwipixusedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609832af5bd6b---futokevakodebavelaneve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastrotest.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kajeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094786053a6c---gidofurifasaxijuwexoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/zewodijiruvofemesig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c17854132---70001034984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093139232049---julajiwunudevukuvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e6b1eede91---89857328119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccedf05c737---nazurape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ddb2a5d95---65871511735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/nubedejufulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=la+carga+del+hombre+blanco+que+expresaPDF 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_off00016050.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16050 19828 bytes
SHA-256: 30ac0c8dac6391fcd23690366a8c13f385d741155829bc0ecfa17a6002d73326
font_01_sfnt_off0001919b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1919B 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 0cfd960bd2d6114459abe40646e4adde0c164f3acb6dbc9af04009d51e9def9d
font_02_sfnt_off0001aafd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AAFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1