Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06d51fab51c5ae31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 20:14:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d2bfc36fb6b7dd81d48bc7f4803b8a95 SHA-1: cf3cf29cc401c589977ba1cde2497469c8f1334e SHA-256: 06d51fab51c5ae318cd94d97524854f68556817c808ebf1a246925e65ba3ce8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of multiple external URIs and the nature of the heuristic firings indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aedec9e958---8382563548.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/vewajifasuvatuvikovivof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/jasiluluvow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/ferutaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkipt.com/_UploadEditor/files/73621972520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e4d35d8bd355e37a1b9dc06a9e57f8f/pirozuvoxupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/44993700004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af798dd9eae---vadujixafuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b2686c9e5---12284632108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1pa9gqqb4hnlcn6rqi82l64q4c/35632515779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d980500c641---57719788882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/258fe9fa4bb89b9901b4ac374345a0af/kavirubapupelivax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/jekaminadoxawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motionmantra.com/userfiles/files/9132261002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a226e992c5d---kavivelipebufaneduzil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5fae075337---vewiwunepetogevifidosen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89192eded1---torofeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838e27104b1---zirujukuzunaguwuzazapenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/446ebf05347dab22fd682cc568c1081c/88925197564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099adc999c0b---31654200810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e55fc0dc07d824634837e6ce8f3ea02/wijowetevutajuboxeminipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esthebel.de/userfiles/file/84420301897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=idle+miner+tycoon+onlinePDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607028d7a25e5---xogidodenuw.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cacf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCACF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E6 10268 bytes
SHA-256: d7d585101b24e624aa3d1e8de1034fd3ea9317c48fe083053ce319aadb2abbad
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9E2 16628 bytes
SHA-256: 76bed2001024178f6a203b41d5e8aec6016e9d73e4f58afa2b1a0bf5fff7ba84
font_03_sfnt_off000124e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124E8 16340 bytes
SHA-256: 6e4d22a3d6d0933b5a539d8a1c3d1b5047abfeab5fc7b59fdce65903d03d4d17