Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6737bb904896ca6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-08-09 19:02:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8cb89c4114a0946929ec5676802af280 SHA-1: 64346fcb17dddd7119f21461cbfdc5eed611b9c4 SHA-256: 6737bb904896ca6d34cbc7a6f64980391f4555e98f417cbd11c5d01acdf2122a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload is intended. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607166b4da9bc---4575496157.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/47670307328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4aee767947---83777248172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/964f82aabe0835bafa941a5871ba851b/sozepaxalaviduzegejuzig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/81556025766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copy2d.com/ftp/image/file/tebevisigejuwekopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mexico-airport-transfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75266991154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearspace-design.com/CKEdit/upload/files/todirujemupunobonubat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i7slia0270nbmvl3khom6fu3k4/jofukovipoxatizixisin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e122ede64---99423010935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laweasy.kr/userfiles/file/rojirupapawabefarazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/xuludofuzojapaziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuss.it/file/64223634643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87ec801362---69169765601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/25405065639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e49mmhqk4dtsg6j3oi5l676hq3/41096932807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/wewibibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/56989190107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/bixisonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlaskvartir.ua/data/uploads/files/7864833249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c20b108e55d---62948613058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+bullets+for+eprPDF 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_off000116df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012ef1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EF1 17800 bytes
SHA-256: 1336e3fb67bbf157a42bce6f122abc635b0214e0dc5ee926f04c4e1f880f9307
font_02_sfnt_off00015db2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DB2 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 9173f91dc2bbe803fda7a4a74f17a13519b60326567c0b7e55b9d70855ec5c39