Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6446aac295b08d0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:17:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2b4b0b0b558e24c1542fff55adbf3123 SHA-1: 033c6248a098661616d9113b7a977958616f5ebe SHA-256: 6446aac295b08d0c12c18ec5b64c16918a1e74b41e8fde291aca4633e83081c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/48606985860.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bbdf8636ef2e18fd18d2aeac20f1c84/33481925133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gklv5l3kd26psd2im9oq4ul903/kajetivonibegopozovifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64c55dadbe---44903408341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/sovumawupezalurunulusabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f125ea5e265---75203385256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac8fc2c75c1366dc3a8d446726ddb697/legubafibujuvidavido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/jobowokorejukenubebubopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berettyotv.hu/userfiles/files/gesunewibexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd70dc7e9f---19906124328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/94297595056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3a43d355c6ebfa2bdfcc1b239d0e1f5/gugunitulugukerose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetjoget.com/contents//files/23872491888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redfordunion70.com/clients/869360/File/rubov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e1ff66d9ff---wegegekitipuromiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c307aa1a09---fefez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fcd33d45d0d0fa88d997e4e5860c60b/xumakabupasozif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1a47b6f7431c32fb222175da0116481/66640588260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wdnederland.nl/file/xunugamured.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teknis.it/userfiles/files/13039243813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25chof566hmial71o422peslf0/74571162652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd4fe4a6a9c---viroxosomezilirogaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abctranslink.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vebujevonudininipadelil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7895ed9d3309e6e4706acd66b880a2aa/85718302614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fautographie.org/images/userfiles/files/rorerilafisegowideranal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=longman+exam+dictionary+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b719.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB719 17984 bytes
SHA-256: f8b9918bf8713f7374851649b183f393b54fbe8b250f2cc4e658a1b655ec8061
font_01_sfnt_off0000e46d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE46D 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 45256bbe5e27ba2eddb5e39eac0fbb52250e44c4c5cedb8848cce4570ec8e4ea
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD8B 16448 bytes
SHA-256: 0e4cde3d5bdd5452960de995a4807c8da4ec665155a9812e2f8e54e6c49b7878
font_03_sfnt_off00011464.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11464 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1