Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6349698dacd07e10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:07:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 445ba89856dce867a4c6154e97a408e7 SHA-1: 32f00b5e37f2f814a982eae81942c4a710b95ac6 SHA-256: 6349698dacd07e10780ff075cad844c8bcaa7e5edb70ac6b3c438badfda494f1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other potentially malicious sites. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e01e6ca6eb---39515308723.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804fbbc5375---50022202017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608694808f2f3---38998102626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/vuvezowaxaravezonup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69qqn98hp847emu07kdjan36ff/mepigewegimepuwima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71766095746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db50a4c6707---sepewexeriwapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asoriofrio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liditaxowevixaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71fc672d1e73a97b2cba393f659699d9/purubivabesewafodotadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/gakopavojowogaxuvovel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1ffb9f8f430820f82bbb63d24979752/lamojavomoboxuwanilete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blesk-stroy.ru/userfiles/files/24724338472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finatwork.com/userfiles/file/63568487450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61efe11763dfb952950054eea4a4a56f/85095330071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vifisafifinag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adimhukuk.com/resimler/files/4339490822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isisthailand.org/file_media/file_image/file/vufutubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/disukabunonimatobixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werbemittelag.ch/upload/file/85207246027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/vadorabuluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/bijekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/lasakofawofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.com/resimler/files/wazofapawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=fairy+tale+graphic+organizer+pdfPDF 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_off0000b6a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6A4 16412 bytes
SHA-256: 58b0930d0d25f31736350f0b9697bf7c3b524970e8c8425f06224b7c8bdd7ac1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e081.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE081 10880 bytes
SHA-256: eed8479a7e82b4898a3fd87529b9ac433da0d2a90e33e23c20219d9d4dc45137
font_02_sfnt_off0000f967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF967 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1