Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06ce48158e263bad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 14:55:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0dd56171cedbc762ddd9df2b58572b7d SHA-1: 41d9800a5b544a9205814bc729037cbc93cc7251 SHA-256: 06ce48158e263bad8af12522394846eef894488dce0af23412b7269f9410bed7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://drivetripper.com/userfiles2020/files/7981920673.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/lododiwunukogebimutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d42ae2115c---87880031094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c798e84aa21---48387503230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609af5efe38c1---gevilefebogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9rv121j87pct02r3isa3lo0m6/tidinedufosemowudepoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfa26c5c25f00605205b3781c16b9260/60792926516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jbg8embaenujnbqd4a5mvqiubq/wejilavefugolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anctools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98523982634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0f8ac5582726966df0e575bb01807f7/84066538951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usagimatur.com/files/others/11948226360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb14be57c0---xozikepevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamessham.com/admin/usercontent/file/8492246387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/pamete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technocom.pl/editor/file/weped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bb8374995---vifafamikaberetadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95a613f028da2217fff8c4ea2e0bce5a/15613138758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebc8126b88---22142293172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkalc.com/userfiles/ziwigosugaligix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/18768469393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb3243b17d5316205f76b0761d9fbcb5/vusononedivoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqkoj65p6bhg9si70chp161aad/9053696382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f64762def207f48157be9df23b665a42/31798016163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=scientific+notation+scavenger+hunt+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000d3c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3C1 18120 bytes
SHA-256: c82355fe891e371f3b391159b3df87f145a4d12fb16b15b74a8a0d6ebef7a1ba
font_01_sfnt_off00010370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10370 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 47958987e1076e687aa75b11dd7d7b17635b945017cc20ac176bd84417e6426a
font_02_sfnt_off00011d6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1