Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06b926b54cc7e748…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 00:50:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: b3343d86d1f73b27ea4e276ad9abf941 SHA-1: 1032993628f9ee67f2bf50f24c66dff4da63cae1 SHA-256: 06b926b54cc7e7484edc198ddf235598ff266357b122f8b84479136633e3a62e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary purpose appears to be acting as a link farm to distribute traffic to potentially malicious or phishing destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b62cd1a30---sedurusatataguxagasek.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://turinhotelcompany.com/userfiles/files/raranosamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usagimatur.com/files/others/nufukaxamezodipin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073926728757---13571763393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fongyoskert.hu/userfiles/files/66369990108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tupnate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40453140967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fenotropil.ru/userfiles/file/zanerediwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/31268026513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/verexitonomagiwojet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7b0e7a10f---71499043585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074433998a6c---84578584112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berbagiangka.com/contents//files/89068822642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fdff6350c---47346163262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/66332996573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0a05cea0314fe017bcdaa3e1dc39842/96293215706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bendhigh1970.com/clients/1/10/106e6567aa8bd3cecf4080670b11bd10/File/pamufefusedotuvek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/99541312237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/77591919303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/wutulolepojasevuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b9cc5048b---gesokelorovobel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30a4514dabe87367423c40c14428a251/94518022451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/23297878126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/pexeburupoxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=vocabulary+describing+people%27s+appearancePDF 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_off00010277.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10277 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 8b6e587a263e862f4be92ec8db4922a76e6914bcbada396dd2588dd544ac7aa1
font_01_sfnt_off00012fa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FA4 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 8459381467b2f1e0dcffb05a843ae00919fc35acf432be3f44f3946f87417a33
font_02_sfnt_off000148c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1