Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6069ec08393e3997…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-06-05 15:18:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7da869049c05a265e97a9ed10febd415 SHA-1: bbdd313208b3cce080f25aa4feb96c183a79c2f8 SHA-256: 6069ec08393e39971bd49034d4e04e62b19bdcc14ebbaf8494af5ff1e5a2892d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ccisd+school+hours+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75f2c48bf92f8ed5b70d517418a1df0c/majatuwelenejut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7s0tfm1rul07f7kegq3dn9do7/fudimotiwatufefudozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trans-serwis.com/userfiles/file/55485076700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/zebabimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cqpdvdcl2m3jhgt82193gpp6f7/faxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/366fd669403c170dfff4f29dc989d349/35779667664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dq8hq2ufjkkrol4mspr69ml6ou/bubimifilifokivokixaluza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/64617423424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9vgoia5c2pmt8sd11gdkcoa90/48261129477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbe4689c8c---fafilubozigurakorok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d526b03o2rqta8ct0ck18fdcu1/52373991536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2d67226043e7b423ba5b37a64acf79e/konujevodufugoxanalumujew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b81fb537e5c---tibaloxerakize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e4eeb65027869fb93620d9c0080d6c5/61586173825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/wulijaxexemusiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2F6 4692 bytes
SHA-256: 17f394078b9f2506656155dc623247467b08cfe30510b65786ebd4a27124ee57
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E2 10328 bytes
SHA-256: e5747bcf25e40e43aab953e57cafc06682e7e84b6e9b2325a7203ba08c78fdec
font_02_sfnt_off0001062e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1062E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71