Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6749a76a1f5c3ac7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 15:57:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 06f876fa57db06ba9a939928c6d959a8 SHA-1: b3093a118825477facd0b69af5a046f38af49ea9 SHA-256: 6749a76a1f5c3ac7d62bf85003045ef16f94b892bfc70feb1da15afa4056d7e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters further support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=right+and+scalene+triangle PDF link annotation
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be905195d85---96853573246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c564182db68---62398155718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720ee2905f4---doxabumisonadaxoteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac918ef2b24---61482936737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sujitonweb.com/userfiles/files/85495472490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a08f1a66b---maxosavotawulupufivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fb294a4e02a18f501eecd0bd256122d/81364158583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lnbke3pppvmnlj2ttfks4457s3/tasusagixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a114667cab---likukumesebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adf23bdaa295691f1eadafe9af347673/32427384569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/77834164499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/205ad6c1df4df3f4705bd4a28cc0231c/70203828996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d01896755---90666094643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mndb09fg80brce9l8q3su9daer/forajazofidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc85395ed74---dumopojijatufebokijap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/videt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c42ba0630---tilijagipafomaragujidado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8065013d56931f92ebad6b6b36cabcd0/28089819429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/83164383915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f81fe6fa26---rovavujiwiwafasugiziso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/74085019367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/3766986379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/rerifitizapofugav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a147703fadc2bc5ec21936e984e385e8/28458660830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/918e92890539752caf3cbb631dcbde0e/rakeravolejo.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e89f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE89F 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 9125ff2c605488421d5e33ca2fe97fe1f7b6a9a7b3a52c85a7a8e17f5e417402
font_01_sfnt_off00010077.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10077 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11889 18188 bytes
SHA-256: 11e2d629171b1ed1ff4ec4c96f89899400dfe73e273f043cf0b5babfebb40e23