Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6456a5a1ecd904e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 05:47:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 58e3972a51ab06faf2eafd859e573348 SHA-1: 094232e6b07d30ba551a8f7fded35bf37d571778 SHA-256: 6456a5a1ecd904e9a9ae45edb654613d01a8d15155eee82d772b5d616778bae0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised websites or disposable domains, designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple links on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://airbays.com/userfiles/file/jedev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/riviganuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.com/contents//files/dijebubulemegurisamogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/19668239054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07aa1f0df7208bd17610506d4f86a085/vuloxijudaxinanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/39738196612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48e20ab5c5641f8883d12a41913bc9b4/88406507204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb64ba293b3---fesuxuwibavomiwokafupoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tapestry.cz/images/file/files/wavanotevofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071825fe9691---jebowezupujagisituxaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609773ff59b8f---finagiwebevukiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolkandkolkdesign.com/site/data/ws/files/31743118478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d356032375621ff010c9d3e71e4830d9/reluxewamivosagabomatewuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tekkoo.net/images/library/File/67426952919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71aj29suejjgkj70v78jb2sq63/69651713537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/lazepemodawaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1jhuu1vcv53a67ii4ir0ejle08/36501920367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b654709fb44---duwudoxozumuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u6l18muchvgc6ednurs6793hq4/1593340307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13980d41a1c4b6fdba7dd203dc34a7e5/43781308617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarthanamparisara.org/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/pixiteruwafotagusirux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e74b52d0129bf6b2444063ed852e354e/jadaxozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childprotectionindia.com/lexcyberia/userfiles/files/73377054886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a17d594af---98016832695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c476d4e92---timazarumokipitap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/15506799823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a07f536ea---72075653097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietspices.asia/uploads/files/70246781303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=dr+mccarthy+and+partners+longtonPDF 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_off0000d894.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD894 16768 bytes
SHA-256: 9f5121977005e13f05ed1b020946eefc2c6f7ff7c4430c447c3c098bc57a4db2
font_01_sfnt_off00010458.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10458 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6F 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 0fccb30aee8b54ebd85cde557bcade69575be0970229e71a0a9cbe8088177cc4