Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6139d2a806cdf9f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-19 00:46:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7a3b2d66eed72d0988a32629bd2cef55 SHA-1: a857ab9b19f3cefc1249394c83d77834814d875b SHA-256: 6139d2a806cdf9f4ae8af2e0c1e1b0277e388665dd8f466f1a1859c33cb24cf6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous disposable hosting sites, a common tactic for distributing phishing content or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic confirms the attack pattern.

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://all-stage-meditation.tw/uploads/files/60ee08d66eef1.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50f4d4cf91a9ebe8c08124874ad3ed22/pekawowiputopilelabusizox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/pavekogunar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/devub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7080c44727eac9ebc52e95a5c8ec0d3f/37299708288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/nogiguvaweliwofifuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/lokogapefute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/57711492824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5362a4c16---gifefomunepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6c9c0f04d8---zozoxevadaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbbe22ec49e---zopeketodubiwijozedomazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivrmm61kp1t78vja4o7c92oc8a/nupogisipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f813955ea---85608890859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d636b71370---rizagemapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/48628751240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tucpbrk7t9dlputrp77lkm1vse/mifabodajeludu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210612_50ABD78C94012C75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac636de16dae5b447a4e025a82770451/43931615414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haisanquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/vasalerijelikunudakagozep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba1cc037ee---monenubigiwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a81c37d475f468b804db4b4bd22b8728/8619462030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/19319315508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenberetrotcmedals.org/clients/e/ee/eef2f5edcbf7b69ea683240098563b39/File/77713485323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8ljnv98bpgrmrh67u516itifs/judumivumidafakox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=lost+my+driving+licence+cardPDF 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_off0000ec37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001044e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1044E 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 1fb0c1bbbcc8b8a74f8f286cce7782c06e2e78229db6152e87d56a7f60614eea
font_02_sfnt_off00011d2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D2A 17144 bytes
SHA-256: f145700cc33363b6dc97cba00df88a83ec6ab4db87597e368e1aee0536b20cfb