Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06ca774af12a59a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 14:17:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 833b59c4fe0b5ac7956c08ec2d49ac63 SHA-1: fec919d420e52810288f0a1d36cc147953faa5f8 SHA-256: 06ca774af12a59a530a6dd8458574884c1835b0d34fe90fb0010717adfc7eb7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it is part of a phishing campaign or a distribution point for further malware. The presence of link farms on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b954cb69dc2---mapimivubi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/tutajodubuxibimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/suwizivalotosazijikaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/gaxeluvinerisovusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0k69g0flmjdmopvitfv7voln4/fabodopekunekusifisoguwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danielbushreunion.com/clients/41596/File/fixapunoziriraxakimova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/mudawajoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/129e56bfc4e3c48f48c846439fca1464/punokebegozanuwazemusomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02411b4beb---bajejep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafabevedezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c86d97252---pamalojujukukujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vqt0p4je0kc7nk8139rc587a93/39020192328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43baa772aa---73220129497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://granitemountainranch.net/userimages/sapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cce386020f---53674317341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6c9bda3d9026538dcf6f580a71dd734/zudevotirul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e603692f3f595bcdd88afced3c8e0c83/92280718584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=business+name+change+announcement+examplesPDF 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_off0000e3db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF2 10976 bytes
SHA-256: f22eb76d59fb2c063b1333dd7183ded372f032b8f9e0191c66670a28af1a9aa1
font_02_sfnt_off0001154c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1154C 16704 bytes
SHA-256: 6427877492305c9cbe32e2fe295a8881a2fd25968e779c172ec2dc8912c04a74