Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6689053dd0335e62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-06-10 23:46:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7481210ec01221f752aac761a64dcf9a SHA-1: cf00c8f238c2c8125aaa32f90e9d1a73f0b499c7 SHA-256: 6689053dd0335e628166ad883bb8e824895a132c7ff525a7bb96ddf7698cbdd4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the presence of numerous URLs indicate a deliberate effort to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to delivering a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+baju+dream+league+soccer+2019 PDF link annotation
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917acf4a62c---xonaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0d0571e9f---2691983280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/91863589912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cf6697388---puwelurezokinazabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/27130363304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75457ea5eebb3a1e85172471fae9b804/99929209026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/93387897932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/48022503721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608414b99c86b---gimarexemaxukunataguvike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c47a843dc0ebc00f365c50f05434d9e/jenamojiberexokutegitajen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b2644e08d---nexugowuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a053b749fc7---58978977576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/negodugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e40b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE40B 5804 bytes
SHA-256: 9eab950df8df79a49635f7b6c6144a2b6dedc633ddfc2c992b6c526d9dbad918
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C8 12260 bytes
SHA-256: aaba3a728202323038248e63e8ad85a61b05e79f248fad6ea2c5663edf9f846e
font_02_sfnt_off00011ea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2