Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6024118a87818818…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:25:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 529bdf26cc3f97686df2aa8b04e4448f SHA-1: 83941f804202f4b062dc6e342f1494ce1f38ff66 SHA-256: 6024118a87818818d3cc2b968f26e34d7a9335733e33b367afe373b5e3a11864
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. This suggests a multi-stage attack where the initial PDF serves as a lure to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f655bb89e3---41482459360.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/2637250634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b51c1f133b9---bizufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/68036916223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1527513005---fopilenaferubuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf5140fb22e9db6d3d42805867a54a4f/tomugimisazivirit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimalar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/30520659429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kartplast.com/resimler/files/68461204193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/surokak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a44817035c---xivexen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37abf349718b53944cbe0edbef6282db/remepos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731f01069f4---4168581286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/24846665491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607940648490a---vuxazufumowobijom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/95216313531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaskinfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b798c9f9e2af69c3a5b950a06e4ade8e/File/xemusiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d82b4fc99---38490355068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094669e33659---dojizodibozen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb772e62644bf25767e4c582e100258c/50231454877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/gekubigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e89d73a514---lepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076619db7911---bejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyvenus.it/userfiles/files/satawuxuperiduwanenera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e3b124e5e---54163739223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=full+hd+bollywood+movies+download+freePDF 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_off0000ef65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010777.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10777 17284 bytes
SHA-256: d0bcf086aefd7c7a58f55ed1d8e3b357076bb3e59e81778c0cf7d2ea2339159b
font_02_sfnt_off000134d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134D8 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 227d13183af3cad19e3a5244b7ffdd9273118423351181570313ac10e56966c8