Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06b272894ea587ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:09:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5e856986c9fc53a9660b17d8ce39dd0d SHA-1: 8fed3291f4ab4efc90fe273a843aecc1596c4ae6 SHA-256: 06b272894ea587ecf9bc0beb4c89c7618709fea7ab8f15b04dd2645b251e4897
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of multiple embedded URLs strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rv8637cpp2vhdpjcj597k6s9ao/23069550590.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124db0ad1b6c---32913565119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09v9ukneuv8g6ts6mamokd99gd/54864118411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haohanlegend.com/Uploadfiles/files/fuwobidejego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smarttechsolutionukltd.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/99763369107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaonhaccong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jebebozewakuzasavasosome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/sexapurokomato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elbag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0307ddea8fe09ebd97f7b068a544cce5/jufosiranufata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e27cd8b37c4a4cb6d4d2954ea425e64e/36137370812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59567fa70118d29ee227bd4d3f0dde7f/89436169428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcf6a7b6ae---ravawafugebinup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/37204300983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30734520fe---bezaxajezenoretixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikincielinmak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/rabubifulokukuzanatoweri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094dccef2c0a---telufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5af0135a51470b9780776183d2140a3e/85992013633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/96883600250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/84822364525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a64c6eaf551a4c81d9cef3468e7eb2d/xujaguved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marchmont.ru/imgs/file/63717954402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608549f5b50dd---tisizivima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesifveotesi.com/files/pekapoboxupofiget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093dc8fd0992---bigimivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb505954a79023a74e2d4d3dc0bf4a2e/5703750870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/24778011376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=communication+engineering+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_off0000dd43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD43 11112 bytes
SHA-256: b80018fb56109c309d7068e08209d37a34bb4b636f5f7bc31ddc7e74d587238c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6CA 17760 bytes
SHA-256: a5aeb579d101e96494aeab7f6a248c9c0949b9227ab6d81f3b2a78b51b1b2f19
font_02_sfnt_off000124a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1