Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6529b0cffebd97b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:36:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 4442272f59a31f7a5a63881935cdb937 SHA-1: cd99d67e71862bd90e9ac83cc0905b86bb1abb14 SHA-256: 6529b0cffebd97b7332a3cc03e4f7aaa4c27df0a82d45616ee2b6df3f2f806bf
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 threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure, but the heuristic findings strongly indicate a malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cede4eb1e16---limusegiguru.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/83393174454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2f6e2e439e---tukefamunufigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f55de9eafecdc02b6014dcacb1eeace/15653484774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/if0h7jkcge87peo1nh8dc58j4o/tojupuvizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/jedobuzivipobexiladojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107c519bee5d---kevolakazetowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3888446b73---savonajiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a457f75ae9---xamalopasefijelokitenun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odlnsidul2e5psv6i57ahs97t8/56251582328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents//files/63783020477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0e27569c74---virigakoworima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161178be4ce822---82570479855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b84e50911636a22cbc533c2e4c4d09e/44038681287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb3dcb1101fcc8953f293adc5bc75753/korabew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607deef2bde1d---16134146061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/66171826587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607280d2ad50c---80080576951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snailgame.ru/upload/files/20210803015928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a55j07fgnmh0u6lsd5360v2qh3/nulidotiwavanawoxedofaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nwdglobal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66143894124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdv.sk/userfiles/articles/file/11619515618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmaciasacoor.com/site/upload/file/71960844380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/30647894703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093280aa8cca---81197696382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=chamsys+magicq+pc+manualPDF 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_off0001077a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1077A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011f8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F8C 18328 bytes
SHA-256: ef9d72a5807179925cf2b6404657af6a2334ea1824e65fa3e27e22d788fb5f53
font_02_sfnt_off00014fb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FB2 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 4e5a9f48c0231d305d2bde06c39fca980f30275b60b7a93d2222039f51640209