Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06a2ab1293ce60cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:52:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 83ac579952a44bb98a1c5f8bad28c290 SHA-1: caf29dbbd7a27ced98c5787f68c961f455a4ad3b SHA-256: 06a2ab1293ce60cc3a3b0aa366551d2df7521ff4d2e3b4c78e0bfe278e71a1cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to facilitate phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a malicious redirection scheme.

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://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/64044698359.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd6f8099bacffe376a89a6ae4572da43/voxiretekewuvusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/646f527dc1727abd363323b792bf2399/rireso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forspeed.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83743051839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayatrosetta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibkjvtccjec2vudr0fdpr4igcj/wiremupawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sesconbs.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32951799966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/likegijunurepazapiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livredart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kovadegolevenakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16b75a9a3a5d8cbcf19691cf04ffa6ee/48211362355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sugejegugetule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risorsaterra.it/userfiles/files/berimitekupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161083ce53a1c5---koxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607695c916085---43182296165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762f7a85c25---rotakijamazuwisozevix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/90384911258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe68a70e81---sagasazewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b5836bdc06d1744c47a7af0c9b340dc/56880489308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paitoonbox.com/userfiles/files/foxodedaromafosigomafune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wixoon.hu/upload/file/3338076372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67d5170f5cefc2cc74c30528fdb21d4a/40359403679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=face+to+face+english+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000d451.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD451 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 925ed946c04b26f95341d9ad0f49303f720cf04c8b67f609630476b4d7c75a48
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED65 19832 bytes
SHA-256: 22314facc76cc4467ef8fe9d1dfd3d5c60063943e99826ce34e972665c1598c3
font_02_sfnt_off0001214c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1214C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1