Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6470a4959f54877f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 20:53:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e125f7a494b776d8286d1cb5f41733ef SHA-1: 02cbcb548196c09769f489a5ca26321c500bdb61 SHA-256: 6470a4959f54877f46fb999446aaa604adfb26e5bab5ac4b0eed4b4cc1ef52b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or phish for credentials. The presence of multiple external URIs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/3223995215.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yoimart.com/upload/file/20210906060040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bkairconditioner.cloud4demo.com/uploads/files/zamenazigefedidolorobos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zygzak.eu/foto_dane/wysiwyg/File/pivagivuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pinorafevojevadonufuluja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rheinfurth.de/userfiles/file/39223573451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcnjl.com/userfiles/files/70181755965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e61d23e9a1---kimexolisiwixujexaxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omeofest.eu/userfiles/files/92201109513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriramashramssschool.org/userfiles/file/8910126967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k2i7t765j35ac5svu21audnftd/58643652744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotteppta.com/beta/assets/file/xukelanerijezobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckfinder.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zabifoxonilibubisigapused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/guvodawutupazuvakovip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130eed3acd01---97895398010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/22428017617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soswzgierz.pl/web/uploads/files/90220338743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uv6vekdh0dan6hfigf16ftfun7/55045025552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-18/20210918190018658853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b562378fbf8ad2cfd55051346ac3a99/98999314754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60116343344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quincy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nonaxesibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eagle-aviation.com/userfiles/files/dexoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-sign.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nesakawexeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayou.tw/uploadpic/files/202109171243468214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=skyvpn+pro+apkPDF 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_off0000b6ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cebe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEBE 16992 bytes
SHA-256: a3db31fcc2e420275a7cca9f979ac2890c181e8b3b7bda4d02cc38abf6cddaea
font_02_sfnt_off0000f933.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF933 10056 bytes
SHA-256: a9995733d4a7fe66039463fb6bd33943869aaf757252994f584f3ffd4866befb