Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06f13f8bc122d311…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 00:01:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: fdae478dbe18a907dd86e6be4207cac7 SHA-1: aecd210e51777a4eabb9600a0cae61dea5e8d45b SHA-256: 06f13f8bc122d3113f41666a31865fff60fd2ba2409a0eb631d087202ead637a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are structured as link farms. Heuristics indicate these are likely used to direct users to malicious content or phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=handbrake+video+converter+apk+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8srko8lqgj1u9ljpa1viqmuh7t/27772927275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161428178b38b3---53754591101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.com/upload/files/86144327138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613238ccdfdac---dafarupudimelisem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613674c55d103---musoxamuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htcpost.vn/vietpost.vn/img_content/file/woxonewuzevipabefunito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peetersinstallatietechniek.nl/upload/files/zizetibuvax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totounited.com/contents/files/fexewepunakokowidifuzevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yhbinternational.com/userfiles/file/bipitalamukozituloxukolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/653476b2cca7c4e021815742a5f1e14f/70001644886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocnepal.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tusuvugusezamagupigilus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkeyinsurance.info/images/file/43016358956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pibmg.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/files/40568783141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novsport.com/content/File/75479749902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130847abb17f---kerezenosisavovezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattingtoemrerogsnedker.dk/userfiles/file/kupivem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57499b903bd903db2fa3be2528f69b99/sedetafikubop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luxopotegun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickbox.ro/images/file/43705080959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity-c-t.com/userfiles/file/pipidejekufup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isigakizima.net/img/tmp/file/sabopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/gijivatulotabolukosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/52315134953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents/files/58531991752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.galiantsolutions.com/emailimages/file/70469441202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areaengineeringsrl.eu/userfiles/files/kalulabukufonimiroperelen.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b99c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB99C 10688 bytes
SHA-256: a063521c4d827c2fd267cf51490f0e97bbee7e9c608affd9c56c756bfb3385a5
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1EC 16184 bytes
SHA-256: 153ced36e4c786e404fc9853edc0a2b66e5697c394f9114d9719aeadf8bf70a8
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1