Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6467ac8b154a13f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:12:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 528b3b006b42a4d635a9180786115136 SHA-1: ce9b6ee09719e3f6d45453587d0ce30e748d47eb SHA-256: 6467ac8b154a13f35ca86841eb1b71f42473cbd8843538383a32dea6c2c2832c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous URLs, including those with UTM parameters, suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=theodor+schwann+cell+theory+timeline PDF link annotation
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/5106415202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609063033e5bf---76647321450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/tarobovomedubovugima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a28445791---26336819897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/luvakawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc0c7c9f380---19976314187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094674fa75da---bilewazevetufadedoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b18358a04a---52886911791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3862de19e---xerebini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14c9d94d3a---2139041560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b37294241d7---46487094929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d8648fb37---6322617792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/888395480e1eb0ad15cc59cb885758f8/28889967201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomorecpapmachine.com/userfiles/files/vamijin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmtbvl8tpqhqhoc7b8tfpvqvhn/29166248107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oglethorpeclub.org/~oglethor/UserFiles/file/tivozumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/diduxinofuxosof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-1/20210501110722500131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b5892b3f1---wabego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44g4nsjq5o75g79mf1pcgdagh3/modotasigapikidesitatolub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ca810980342daec95ee3bf86262622b/netubokogelomozigefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a290387cf0d---40369133039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739f9f67452---givukijenirevisagobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010871.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10871 17292 bytes
SHA-256: 0e7e94eb9ff2388e3eff6334c6cd2d6f60bea3ac218eb2d2a08a61f074290cdd
font_01_sfnt_off000134a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134A4 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 65f92c6f76de74e9338443fd809390bad75aa71f6f757f00f1156810f37ab790
font_02_sfnt_off00014d6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1