Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6732e520ebe7aad0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:48:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: fec2e9e48e1cec00be305ab7dbe64c88 SHA-1: fce7b09f8979df51391a1f768163c9b6a75bf87c SHA-256: 6732e520ebe7aad044ceb745f45d4f568a98b14d54e3383a73507a42a3e6287e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which host further PDF files. This behaviour is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c02660f6c---lazujusupi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://arc-en-cielproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kenanepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a3fbcdc76---62525772652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/morevadepavowarum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/rozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021052919303880554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopadive.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47275653562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161088693eac60---37463803116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/lodofabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/jevivatipavisijezotumoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-group.ru/userfiles/files/fejufuzapidofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddd79dd9621---57789874094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.org/new/upload/board/files/83665355019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a424912b6f1---46961531762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83163025ee8823bfaa57fdf0e4651dca/nadukodid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/53824383386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/14825615148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webelievedin1984.com/clients/6/67/676624d6593aa512bfa6e10e765af00e/File/36488223503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giasidaily.com/uploads/userfiles/file/relujolaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcts5dfqsfem6oq7ff6bb3n9o6/medak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alves.bg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61498099050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/16791969966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativitagh.com/pevron/www/img/file/sodivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/xikisedam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverkarenisandby.se/UserFiles/files/nokepowirodusirijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srlamn.com/clients/0/00/00e84243199fd86ca7c15d66a0237eb0/File/xulubadalowaxewalegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=one+ones+other+another+exercises+pdfPDF 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_off0000dbaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBAF 17336 bytes
SHA-256: c81655016dc6e0d04c9bb2e4a64a1f86b7ac9b44eb60e2221b0680cc1295de55
font_01_sfnt_off000108c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C7 10796 bytes
SHA-256: f1f231de52aa87910fb0db50fd8ba49fd2d527945bd6538f0e9f0a3346ee8791
font_02_sfnt_off000121ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1