Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6264097e6547e3bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 07:49:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: af40903d685ff3ef11e8b28a7abb8b91 SHA-1: 786e1e01140b55aaf925cc5529c3e94a0343dd2c SHA-256: 6264097e6547e3bb1bf168e92b974268fdbdae1e5c507aa5973d620564c1ed52
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV both strongly indicate maliciousness, consistent with a phishing or link-farming attack designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging a link farm to distribute malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/givajolisewuwamaxiral.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://orrizon.ru/images/file/juleliler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a5783e5c8acc1d5f49a671aabd09089/nanurofuxufusoxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58f8622ad3e3317ff79ebac38f0d49f1/fejotefapusubewijigar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/83524008078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angeladaniel.eu/uploads/files/70826108033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087169747600---dokikofuviref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d57b5684bdf---60179397546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valleypainclinic.org/userfiles/file/51238631495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72b0d5174800cde552ee37e260271171/zaviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/84147216076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609680732d631---10082847239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a53f19d21538c1747f4e9c658f3e5781/78336520293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97b144638aeeb63ca1a6ee9846ad94ad/tavezonevato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ii3dfc3psbsnkpr4o0imsuna31/46978624084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717b0d1188d---61801994272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contentworks.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8bc7b2391---xekilojosugil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feec31d792792d2694844f396c07d2b6/31335934563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hifitness.hu/userfiles/file/18601270255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kf82tl4n8n3iejedhp316quf4j/7280903708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/lijejodewikine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7539453778d2ba7bb1398f2aaa9bb41e/59046261839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/28419282562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=words+that+begin+with+the+letter+uPDF 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_off0000f0f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F4 10848 bytes
SHA-256: a51fbcfdf45bc03e64fa509c75472c45b66b3c6dd0322cebca74daff94a2cac4
font_01_sfnt_off000109c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109C2 18208 bytes
SHA-256: f19acf43116375e4f5285fcbc8f3dfbe83133db40384c2edf46f7a341387e51b
font_02_sfnt_off000139bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1