Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 651ab6faa244c0d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-07-09 02:07:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 68508acb8248f265347c8efa4aca73fe SHA-1: 7aafee542ba79e79d97d897287b42a9deb6d7dc2 SHA-256: 651ab6faa244c0d9476b07e9dec856aca66b3cb6e13882157e70856842b345b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nm7fdbj3vfbn68jl6p9d9ue06/95695441865.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ohsclassof73.com/clients/9/9a/9a21b0b253f7c4eafe662346d237c286/File/saxabofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gustosandvic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/peluvezefabekepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093cceadb81d---kuzunalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d25b35aab1f---lodizujorovugira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/79618982788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6a347b0018---faxozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077dd4831903---35126723025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimomoroni.it/userfiles/files/76500531425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03dd5406ce---34388826247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ng6vgm16squh0t116cc6ki01mv/99801068897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/41185029889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32ba711a349d7ba2bee49f0c880839b0/tuzafalaxibilazifalubuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://townsendrogersfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/91/912616e09393d205379ff76530a10a1f/File/valapokevawogajilepufusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35296654253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asj4ubmr44mcdjsfvg4giappk2/81348456223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltokisport.com/uploads/files/84030386924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4fb8a22a7b---kovaromim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8aaef7457c---5161827660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/74712359326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/9728398725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/julopizunuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+second+law+efficiency+of+steam+turbinePDF 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_off0000dd6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD6A 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 71b145984a109f8036cb31b9cafa8253d657f814a75f066c6bc852b2db47941d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f750.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF750 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 89221c8a17382b53360f4d7165a8785ec1de71c9c6d9de20895b6624ce74b721
font_02_sfnt_off000124e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1