Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06e5a38f92cafa70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB Created: 2021-07-13 06:02:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f1113563e00cd89a651a0003ad7aa566 SHA-1: 579fb84ba0ea3d5cb07a6ad33d9c4f3892f14acf SHA-256: 06e5a38f92cafa7020c7f359f12cb1d787d268487368a842b50ac919c4a12cb8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious content. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious sites. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external, compromised resources, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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 https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/111cd2e4670651cd0b48563232ddec99/17325554581.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9738be44635ad336fd21398dc5724ad/jewakonabilaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trvstore.com/userfiles/file/28779965270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817c1186633---rumujegoleru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawrence-spruill.com/clients/42275/File/joxirejikimilinikod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87bcef1872---44467497715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/21673844048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baf5f5a3e1e---bunodifomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1188b4e7d9b0d92057ad394a37f88ed4/ginobamaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/51787492095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalilak1.com/userfiles/file/gopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/gesem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhoffordphotography.com/temp/files/file/gemafizuzeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61e3ab50955e6079ac0c7bba4ad91c08/dikaropasikumejogolav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e76cad4bfde---tasopukagozunugujidasapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a51ecca0ad5---40423923901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/49374337831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/puvekoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/nesisatewagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150115_235824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a68e071987519b6b5127f44bfc13a81c/maxizena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b52a25812---nebuzabojitavalonibiribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bffa2e832f045a80268a18eabd43b8e/vitaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/13826196832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=this+is+a+wrongPDF 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_off00011e55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E55 20212 bytes
SHA-256: 23344d2005cc3dfdc07eda76e6d5b9ef1907a889231c68c9032d87e00dffb384
font_01_sfnt_off00015255.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15255 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016a6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A6C 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 915a3f46f1ee7683addcb742194d8f0ca48fbd9214878953e0a924df94c32c32