Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06d9b01d6b4d59f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:12:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bcbd94a12681f9e9b0f9839202308fb8 SHA-1: afe851db644eb55631070728e2d9e4c71e16c3f0 SHA-256: 06d9b01d6b4d59f0dc556c9d4c702f4c4dc1639e71ebb33987cb7b51a4553714
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing lure for a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://rld-carbon.ru/file/posadugutazujopowekarukot.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///84423845241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auksozvynas.lt/userfiles/file/zujojepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f7daf85e35---69781217474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608818e1d6981---43133022027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc788c16bb---sarikojemeranofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/okrqcrlh4r05ksfoc7v2t51k34/70100917288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u80ork3evheo0mte5dtq09m2gr/80430173046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5998006b4---jajaragosotarivododozodop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f17c4c43dd---fominivimisoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/93205864141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1cb668569b5a7a673cffd1ff689ae32/gikovuvivaxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5802c3223a---38063675402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14978fbd5f560437a44b3741e8e28efc/ledigopisevivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/67698020470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f805c83c490103a516c6dba5a67095ac/jipagewawolegumodiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munord.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/806ad622d97e8a23d379f2693c3b4568/52974015993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/20957601731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/11449090505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/460b832a608327807d02e5b920bfb451/kofijurefisuraxonikixisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce884caa4a2---nazuvujaraboduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dribblebar.pl/userfiles/file/52991600744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=download+pitch+deck+templatePDF 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_off0000ff4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF4D 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 5919f59d23c5ce5ced98dc4e3f103310ea61a8563c6fd252082ff111a41f3e77
font_01_sfnt_off000117a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012fb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FB4 17600 bytes
SHA-256: 588e33cfdea84643276b6466016b53e75eaf1a40ce4ba12814dcbbc984cb86ba