Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06fc36fa85d0338d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-06-24 09:06:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 204f0ac68debcf45a966bec918b62d21 SHA-1: ed08a9c563ff83702c92d5bf3c81a1072b0eb7ab SHA-256: 06fc36fa85d0338d36a92a4cf5632f3b8dcfdf1c02c4853f70a1a8d0d9804ff3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a common tactic of luring users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/kegokasologemoremilif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160784537c9195---totasaxiwodegetubamuwaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovtec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/79476252320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7ae0e69af---3581849571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gistys.com/userfiles/file/toxasemuxokeribix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckpak.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/36650951496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/26183110240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607846885a994---ganeretisef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp70.com/clients/873855/File/pagitatilozugopopike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9cabe0f49---lukatixekukogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cittadelmiele.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02a1b1b5990b92c7693e04e8b98945a7/24196450691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/99324669292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9c5068ecc---15363000968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/890629757bdd821972122950b59e5176/86113170541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/7234414133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608556ebee0ef---85656724565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=interview+competency+based+questions+and+answersPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010c97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C97 5644 bytes
SHA-256: dbbec88bf1f3954d218963a308987ce1a9aadb484eaba473b54d5e48e2ddf680
font_01_sfnt_off00011fc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC0 11660 bytes
SHA-256: 9e31102916f68bf76499f0d6377f91402c1b43001ed3163587cbc7010a3183b2