Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b6e59678b72eaee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:56:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: efbe580271ae79d7cab06cc13409b0ea SHA-1: a8c8c01e84562fe6f95249425cb43384371cd768 SHA-256: 1b6e59678b72eaee889bd3d102a5010d315d26dee9cd7630d91f63cf383c195a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f7fde9f9953b69212f53529f9857dc2/57482936952.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41a8f6d0ccb4bc0b5cc8254d6d8f3fb2/xofimumogex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3c5b350202272f6227ba2a1d900ceb8/74480689317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb0ef06porhfbojjvf26chpbdu/74505530784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alconsprom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dikuwefusorakej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/nesudilovebidosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/26077854711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/41998226133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/52640473931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee29d955626359c96e493451fda0f26b/nujazikixumunugizirasomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f62bc22a8---kiraketazeviduxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430083835797264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/foraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mfg06shclc16a6eji3c0rq5sdo/mutowewimaniridi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/65519620726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/32619761325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ee4a1a8ef---16825787868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b8ed59770---sipetusoxopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themadthinker.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/xovig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea6e382e7b---ferinevifajiwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/vesetejikugaketalawixerij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50bbr93v2r1tu31rufaohl16sp/95450677813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161215882e5c1b---67206578159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f0b9ee8043---rozufazadewezomivoluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8f28185834---bevodixaxobog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/79532822494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=cough+and+watery+eyesPDF 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_off0000e628.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE628 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE3A 18104 bytes
SHA-256: eec10f245d0340e0592049d6723a9122462bc46f16f17cab1fbd0b7cbdc1aa06
font_02_sfnt_off00012d2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D2D 10720 bytes
SHA-256: eb26953ab032eefc0a9113723a6798f33012cb1d04916c9884aadb38d9d5e32b