Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06d31e0677961737…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 14:57:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f3b2ac8452ea9cd8ef598386f5810dc9 SHA-1: e04238f3774a0576dc9b0d35d56bfdfe35bae0ef SHA-256: 06d31e06779617377787d24a27f72b92b4b0fcf0f78a156a074786934960b3b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other unknown domains, likely to distribute further malware or conduct phishing. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9897

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://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87d2e83d9f30bf3aecf35a260ceedb82/fefoginafilomobizekuvu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bfttacg.marketsearching.com/upload/files/26380548083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connectcontrol.net/files/userfiles/files/26804784749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rutka.pl/media/upload/files/8543b05f428e8d99a95a2c5eaab08d51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armenia4d.com/contents/files/faxadarovunovazaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24horasnoar.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23028981412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2hbbjtga7lj32fp16mqlj0lbg7/68506304004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oppedisanorobertosrl.com/userfiles/files/bugiburu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liftsystems.ro/LiftFiles/file/49771923155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e2c541de4c---xugepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esebtekstil.com/resimler/files/pisirek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanbularicilikfestivali.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kixibofogakulama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73957143763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ef90307601---katajero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graviroz.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12638513485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oykufestivali.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/demipetubilifimumiduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukaunited4d.vip/contents/files/92651431875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubon.top/uploads/files/foxosefosenexabogixitijow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pixel.bg/img/file/59108353028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimsanghun.com/upload/userfiles/file/2021922246422339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spiregene.com/image/files/20210910_023045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/dibiberujogepumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.com/contents/files/zurubut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wenorarirazumevexofit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catwalkdogcome.com/editor_upload_image/file/17615376821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a899.net/userfiles/file/rolewinox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proleague.dk/userfiles/file/lufosivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=web+browser+in+your+smartphonePDF 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_off0001044d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1044D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011c64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C64 10904 bytes
SHA-256: abba9e14ed08abcac90c575447a3727b46c6ab7dda531ff7aa299c68fd087522
font_02_sfnt_off00013552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13552 17944 bytes
SHA-256: a4d222d0c4e495a3d7f347fc9a1e83e4935c03e8cb3ddc61976f43ef64adb586