Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06baf1e5ac790431…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-07-08 16:47:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5bb3d0bf899e222c1d139fe118b25dd7 SHA-1: ea033dbd0f7025cf26ab2f67dbe9e220324f316d SHA-256: 06baf1e5ac7904311d37874d3979c83973802e41848eab5fb679cde4c8cde2aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/78462228632.pdf
    • http://restorationteleconference.com/clients/73716/File/48127502765.pdf
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/tojojikidovilawireroxolex.pdf
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f76cccd83a36b5ed40a9fd7f1966933f/dozuwawanaweximujek.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6c1910024402c44cf26fc39f590f043/42357004753.pdf
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uhq5nul0km2ovi6u0vkvj3rb0a/pazepilaxiripad.pdf
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cbbb94b90ceee463e2e1d4aecf5eace/42587577803.pdf
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5d59c1e4c---nuxawi.pdf
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaxubedotani.pdf
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/88480676383.pdf
    • http://dalboncostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/votabokoku.pdf
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/wosexonisewul.pdf
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae63fe0dfe---doxevepafepesizabuj.pdf
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801a08a4a07---lubafopewew.pdf
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/9915710219.pdf
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/linuzilizukaxajejur.pdf
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c42dbd7e820---22453793646.pdf
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6neih9921u1mncttuk6o5vtr4f/75792763025.pdf
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090973959d22---78398611199.pdf
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/90188008742.pdf
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/selotud.pdf
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9un73d2nd0f420f34piqltjimk/32734630311.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=city+hall+new+haven+ct
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c92e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC92E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e145.bin
d1a552490b322e94a3146b2df87709d256080f6bc263bcfc947551a89f84018e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE145 10236 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f83d.bin
8909a0f1b61dc90515548ef1da999eedf19548c3473659df1e64ca5a78d995a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83D 17200 bytes