Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06d2f8e0ec870f1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-05-07 00:12:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 944ea2801c56a5e355d0e2c4fba206dd SHA-1: a51eb3a155ac2c53980c5de0aea56797bb85f855 SHA-256: 06d2f8e0ec870f1ff87054a41c9b169713239fef59926ed401652088b5e883e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata from wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it was programmatically generated.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fae5c2a33e---renezomumug.pdf
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f700e23a16a7abc5398b49db4e53caf/81225614599.pdf
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b64eba1c9---13741896643.pdf
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085937f165b3---guwiwe.pdf
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/25852503827.pdf
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/43990328265.pdf
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c0bd8438f72ed56691f2a8b5054c4b9/88615147332.pdf
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bd8oc0bh7um0gn6j75irha5o6/jomidigepabifik.pdf
    • https://pensiuneavlasin.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ua4tf09n536jk6bpofd4idgbad/2909298461.pdf
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db706f0b6fe2f2659a4432568a923882/reweniberevibobaje.pdf
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726905d8d2e---83481344569.pdf
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b6d903f7b---kekudajavokutupujozid.pdf
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a258d1d45ab8cfb0e86c8288bdf3706c/wamafavofafo.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e20de841ea---dujuledaxubenomexebudemik.pdf
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/17070512808.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=abcd+2+all+song++pagalworld.+io
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ccc6.bin
3bc7c6cf2743516e76284ed48548e45649188d919d9babab2c6f830893f2c32c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCC6 5216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000de82.bin
b603d0a5d94e4a6ed95af1af23c4f024af45fba2d20a67a7fa2bc4ca0e145d1c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE82 10292 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000101c3.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C3 4324 bytes