Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6055052250a84a00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:53:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b7d391e79e2fc2fc2123af30300397c3 SHA-1: e86569d2fa12b97148cab1637eb97d85422effdc SHA-256: 6055052250a84a00194e956e7c80c87e2b3e7444c54aa6c8ccc336d41ac22d5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings point towards an attempt to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9682

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=diatom+taxonomy+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/xozanujaxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8408a996f---fobijowifidoxutopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jum3ig3ss5uo7nnbr335jemmt1/94385044804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daindnc.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/wubopiwilukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210626091400_1852202235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/30170600755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ohkbm21c3192p4grjqqcq41nl/xugiwevimokasegatifal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8ji2djg1o4kudrgn7d9i4e46k/95731442785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a77d933bb91ebd3ca62374439899e1b2/gikasum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607092958ed86---78312629675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d043c8edb68395fab86c02343c81aa6b/fubezazadoninupinemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfcd15b3c3---tuwede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d140f152ae---74067609670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagominum.com/contents//files/dutetogiket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/jurumojifapezazineva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/34638805892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgogs.com/mgfiles/file/givufebuzojemipubekafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azseal.net/uploads/userfiles/file/53560049971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/nufowulumud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roberlo.cz/www/files/file/63011505862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ejpisci293kui0dkrdgdficskg/pokote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d0ebbf77b7ab49fa23845911164fc83/tetop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed4be08e2e5---94032305597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavaszitura.eu/userfiles/files/wodajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyosserspneed.com/userfiles/files/43944578035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b98036d24de---99596447211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010ac2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC2 20932 bytes
SHA-256: ff4ba98e7ac1d88dc80cddd485ce8b3304e913af37e13dd28aea87f1d27f54b9
font_01_sfnt_off00013ffa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015811.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15811 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 279bd2bd1ae9bae3623781d2d4e7f0af201000fd17e07631ff289233e69bb7a7
font_03_sfnt_off00016fb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16FB2 16128 bytes
SHA-256: e086d997b6ee3c3fe48f8fdf49e8854b9e9bef9c53b5c2c5f26bba4f2b277426