Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06c8e612e14e45ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-07-14 10:12:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: cbb0f486cb909abacba831ab312c937c SHA-1: bb32896d89bc73f5e1961206ba236e598f0970b1 SHA-256: 06c8e612e14e45ac46fe17752546b1f2af15fc23dbb1cc0045b2ddeb6b65465c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The file's structure as a link farm on disposable hosting further supports its role in directing users to potentially harmful content.

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 http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/60637043824.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078284946c5e---vazifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c619534c749491e521fb3c4ff8621393/toxifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/kolowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetovm.com/uploads/files/31762833268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/462f6c09dbec8435669b427c9ef0cff9/vufixuzimaruzulilalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalmi.ru/upfiles/files/papirelivevedebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d44119eea3ee7cf73cc67182adbc3f47/36333968907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtsport.com/pliki/fividomegosejeripumoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com//files/zunuwefazawup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608623c4b2cf9---vajuwajudabitugazemisiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/021720428474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/golituwesowosoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micro-churches.net/uploads/file/92299275325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/23336129919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76254b9a747f1b4e7046b754b00cdd9d/pesiredagizexowejeten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/48085782592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/28975422229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a489cad51c---49754304080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609884a31cd93---98458463592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5918980a2e535d2539380df6d7cd4249/34339043460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitymattressfactory.com/admin/userfiles/file/49790393078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2d3867288---39880552901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+%2415+time+and+a+halfPDF 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_off00011401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11401 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012c13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C13 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 69652ba277f005c4e4dab87c9b19de9779e6927ed50d72c7d6c365b4579e6982
font_02_sfnt_off000159d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159D3 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 1fba3fcb974bceddbf75510c6ee70fc2077536676d4b86d1d967a9702c5bcbbb