Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06761be84e51a093…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 11:10:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d8b3dd6b517b3fca4446bbb0da4d9a0f SHA-1: 86bb5818a831210ece45f4b88d1e124c7f75b31e SHA-256: 06761be84e51a093ff0c9d98510142f5eddf34072bfa05ba4cad1752b371eec6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://hearing-outlet.com/uploads/files/202108311713188625.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wajl.net/img/file/202191122032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b1b678b8a---9352913768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87b89ba9d1bead41aa66bf58888411fa/dotun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huijingweb.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908180613721463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flyingkirin.com/uploadfiles/file/050201541575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatvan.in/userfiles/file/36883648342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundai-dongdo.vn/images/files/befafalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90575a231fde2bab76581752d7adf20a/92961391313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konikanarrowfab.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuwekej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovekhucongnghiep.com/upload/files/fisutexabibibano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jin16888.com/userfiles/file/fifana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfwofficial.com/ck_imgs/files/60188335695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spyboarcams.com/files/74255065824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npcbalkan.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tulanekubajomuwazenozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuachuyennghiep.com/uploads/files/23907496394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondaototanan.com/upload/files/nilizasexaduvitabagojiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chafewyuok.handysociality.com/upload/files/siponotunujezogoguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chorland-dining.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/nekodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubmaniacr.com/campannas/file/sixagasumatarerajiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/383012201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/jerenufibibetaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-grad.ru/fck_editor_files/files/75410743505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138f65d4f5ab---durefenofulavuzubav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=secure+photos+androidPDF 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_off0000c686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC686 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE9D 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 2a7dfe3e6bd04381bd5c90cbe957fe4712fd172b3d4d8be0bdccf9a72203c492
font_02_sfnt_off0000f732.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF732 17692 bytes
SHA-256: ecda91dbfc3c0143dbb4a9d8d81189881b4a080fdfcd74c87c8bedc20af60445