Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d6f0ff3670528df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 21:24:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 19efdf8660e49c9e33489e941879dbe5 SHA-1: 5032b23702f5f987bb9654fb9597bf72c9b62a43 SHA-256: 2d6f0ff3670528dfbc63e6c83bfa66511d9c734a8d5fe4f38d650bc551a9d7be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to download further malware or engage in phishing activities. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06d9e1666f354014fd6ad70c268cf3ef/96050425176.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b249bc063df---wopexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43039f5015ef90bd241bfc2c9fb97bd3/39295267484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/06/24/file/63415488244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoealora.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zizidefujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/92312510536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dubghh9r1lnt85tvkjh8enq1ia/jakulefinokimiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f314c8cc26---fokuvuwukuzakubute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05d8b4ca59---taxizurozejujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/jizixexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kfsj8vkams6i95mvogk4js3e2i/39016058895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4c414aedf---tonegik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxik.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37013869572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4bc8d09f6a---zezuxogejivel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608fbe35b105e---28698733220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15e0d4b891866071ee4013d7b310c529/90485723554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twxcd.com/img-aim/files/53975145005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088551fa2619---88557604717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a160bcf363d---71071097641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d66r3ctceuu4hfgs5d3po2hk5/legezofanebosewugixudakuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/18446628349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b77a10c73a---59641025556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=a+christmas+carol+ghost+of+christmas+present+quotesPDF 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_off0000ece9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE9 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 984c8db7bc6e8390b352682c52cae6bcb11a3e2d1a5fd6a7ba345e639199dd5d
font_01_sfnt_off0001068f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1068F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA1 17072 bytes
SHA-256: 5fca305a3ceb6f4db9a9c3479e450ede6bd4280bf02724a5b184146a33c68e84