Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06405d106694de04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-22 06:35:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ecebb37d29feccfa96f16701ed04757e SHA-1: 5aed4b38a60cf2a7cde4bf3bc710e6a17d0a3c75 SHA-256: 06405d106694de0458c969993a068c0ae2e0d4524a92a41d395e466a84295074
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm to distribute traffic to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/pajusilijaxire.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/betazosovogizenilusogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c941486aee---84952612899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-spa-resorts.com/dok/99799425716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghozibistore.com/luutru/files/mezugowufupitul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/wusakokapek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreabulk.net/userData/board/file/tuzupuvevalovafujumiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77039f3464---64773144736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/bojidokir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/31142014002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607772c5b9f81---legefijeranuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cade20b6891---bozajojujubojasabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62c0abd8536188bbf8c136258e16d521/kafepopif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ecceb80cf02eae907733864842b4640/41316863770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/37225952967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defrokatilai.lt/images/files/78655098382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/dikodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b937ab4bc252271115507d0c25b1d0f/liwapitopevavuvomapomokoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f86078071c4583c8a14534cd5c7ddaeb/14433778260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609830f703486---vutuxagon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65c31d11b3bde94c5e7ca6f87f544638/zoviligojazadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/wisorewaguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=sore+throat+no+swellingPDF 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_off0000ed15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED15 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 19158a75b2bcf14c05cb384d248c2622ff994e5de1b538a0a97827c6bae59b6e
font_01_sfnt_off0001051f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D31 16220 bytes
SHA-256: 47b4713d27cb19578d462d49a001716d156914c190fde1b5f4a68863c87442bf