Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06c07044c587d41a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 15:25:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c672730eeebbb2e241778f6a83a78759 SHA-1: fe3fd5c248692a0b434a323b6b38cac890087f01 SHA-256: 06c07044c587d41aedb08b3bdb9e2e6d564e63a822cca0f1343d991000dd6d6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms on potentially compromised CMS uploads suggests a tactic to obscure the ultimate destination and leverage trusted domains for initial distribution.

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+council+of+mirrors+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faef7b4af8f73438ecaaefe61236c1ea/26332368661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/53751012481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d50524e846104a2927a7cd6bc9c7eb9e/zafozujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwynva.com/clients/d/de/de91e19d235d8a3764238851c6b73f99/File/37225019799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4500ae6b8e4e6b59885c7722e556fd23/xaduvadolevonup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/50878265039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a084d7bb82c---vojumiminorimozak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfa155cbe5d---13897276505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o02qgjlffufk32v9vgfbq29fkd/79237995149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14f8b6d5f88812fe3e03297e421f1ff6/xafuriledoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/nepejipiwavenix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/xozimakufirexobukigapon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/jobetonewedufikebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ulclhei2arf7gg5hh9nq2nf5bs/lovovakodoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6948d2fcabd2054d5dbba0aae1afd99d/logotefoxuvenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/lojuzuximimufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/demor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f341.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF341 17672 bytes
SHA-256: d88abbf5f7c45a929d87318a951c91bd47e60be5573b34c4f0a892d19a2096cf
font_01_sfnt_off000121ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121EA 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 1f6f69b1e65c3d67668f085ce5902b5bec9680ce28f8e2cbd1eabab7357f99ca
font_02_sfnt_off00013a22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1