Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1651e6da4b0090c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:21:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4babf2a8eb29e85393d27398faaa42fc SHA-1: f7a291128ade40504222bb9db478027203f7977f SHA-256: 1651e6da4b0090c90c6c4e5d129b7443c364def794d4f898fdeb91d93301297d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation. The presence of many distinct hosts and UTM parameters further supports this. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vqb0stts82qm1romg4htb46ee/wekujixije.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/525b7f78b1d397ec2a284bacc5d7efc9/93133953328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a4eb197d2288cf8e36aab7fc6020198/19171921742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2m4cqrhmlddheeegvj3ugj1ub5/87940995678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/subor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoroman-service.ro/imagini_ws/75789454352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardfmcgintypa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fulakikevepapaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/131e2d77a1fea38e20a470ef8a360666/32544502989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/47629460614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bee9f10802---rukuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb6a6b9835b4ec43970bbea9efedd0c5/61590322318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e8f729d36---riragexewetumojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/bixabudoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orhs89reunion.com/clients/77823/File/lazivekewifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a83bc9f339ffdf4abbc762062675cc0a/pibuweratofup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47763899734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f801096795---fimemorilepebonewowose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beaaab9d1d6---22340440472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607628cb1b7ba---69844400670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759db755c31---32135744602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88b9a3202345014fd77dbf0a19e9a35e/29813431043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d55f4c3694---sokefiwaxebetub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fmkjtcnfkur0rgg2coqn37hskp/lefuwutokozuvod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710930658a7---gevasikoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=homemade+pea+soup+with+hamPDF 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_off0000f075.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF075 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 9724c6ab93f836115500186c572f4daea2d3dcfcc857ac5ac1392bbe5807e535
font_01_sfnt_off000108a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A5 17600 bytes
SHA-256: 2e6d5922f4d77212facfd6bb5318accb78f649306ecbde04db65eb2c293381f7
font_02_sfnt_off000135ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1