Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06cf836081d8fb96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-08-20 02:07:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b19b31f7c3b5eda7a960b0fb6ba8d5aa SHA-1: a0344609d57b164cc448d8f3c5a4d4e7be32b9c7 SHA-256: 06cf836081d8fb960d11356de1ca0cc51158a57cbacbb46a9d53a324a1404b21
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+money+gta+5+story+mode+xbox+one PDF link annotation
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0vi3094i8d1lkjl9lq9ula37hg/rufevogunovotad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvu12h.net/userfiles/file/31958145973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ebe5a08d4---gitixeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanantamhcm.com/uploads/files/45334919235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce082d6d7e---25555392778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schoonhovensvrouwenkoor.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rununazizode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/66759603809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jesssmithtri.com/jesssmith/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poviguna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d55f967fa---24990680539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49336f9d7add297c87f35d896c552649/vivipolep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/24041906160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qsqnmf41ou061paenpmmmqeaki/polejonujigaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904bed8a652---netezusesuledawalanet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a5d66d718---29192432348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f9v2c2p4qbcllu0ku72srhuip/giketoxizodozunisiser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1a06027c0---munefunoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindseyderence.com/userfiles/files/keleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fe91f09597e9b87450c5811084d4317/davelavebezemowikopiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca4263e3f1---fexidudejuvuwopefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40a1cf4e02420570487bc5faeceae208/43849104864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780c27e3327---92199119609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/riwuwebudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockfallco.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0d6164cc8---sefuvuxudu.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_off0000ec43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10455 17268 bytes
SHA-256: 90da7016634f36b95b48c38cb6a0cc618d2f4bbd3e0073b7786eb2969f12ab6a
font_02_sfnt_off000131a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131A6 11112 bytes
SHA-256: f98d24cb727577ebdc9e70ada3207e239f95196e6246f48d70ba6f8ab3db3a77