Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6489f69eb93d6767…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:48:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e90a51ab0af07f42c5336238f74d2e00 SHA-1: 552862e7568c54e52a3607e0cff39f8a646b698c SHA-256: 6489f69eb93d6767b4d843c18a1da85dd768774597fb587a9ee3499e44945494
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to redirect users, potentially to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/86418108029.pdf
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf8d01c9f2---zemiritunonutalugibuwez.pdf
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a294522ee12---86379113073.pdf
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/kasolenugonowolazoj.pdf
    • https://tipresentoio.it/images/file/55583246354.pdf
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b6da0ad49---27002489675.pdf
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7b36f9ded9fc9f337274e7a48dc29c7/jikuvelo.pdf
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tljivv9v489k02gd5bacobjuq3/99734524747.pdf
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79f9c276d9---bumipetumiberonirowuj.pdf
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/23302194682.pdf
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/wibumuwoke.pdf
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091792cc9d43---tepudugalafekobinikireku.pdf
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210528231040097.pdf
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddmmm0e26jl8bf0cqmc6uhmq41/pubufuxigajusivi.pdf
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/64561507972.pdf
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21121872067.pdf
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/zozuza.pdf
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/3770688155.pdf
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/jakefepase.pdf
    • http://premium-h.info/files/files/91566590211.pdf
    • http://gospel-pour-100-voix.com/fichiers/newsletter/file/bofogo.pdf
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947fbb2ced1---11475541686.pdf
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lu8o7d7e3dpasc0h9spe7pagov/riferaxapinutixenunuf.pdf
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57447b8819636ab4fcff0e962153effe/28091739545.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=ksp+and+kf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c47c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC47C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc8e.bin
8667de1f9d2b826d102b07fcb829ce6e2b2a3e07f674c0a877d8d68fc860be65
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC8E 17244 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000109d3.bin
8e0cc8c839510226b3b4d3d2799f547a022476cc9f7178fe27100ad4f1b6c68d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D3 9988 bytes