Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6828220bbfb9765f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-07-07 11:52:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 980f11da562f749bf06fa72a34a8fc96 SHA-1: d04310176c4de7b04649a42c03e6d794689c4761 SHA-256: 6828220bbfb9765f6fbcc8f4a02fb8e2d70cceed3c8193a3f793a23260169d47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially untrusted hosts. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2df3cdb1975538a11620f7218790685b/sozuzopav.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/85748156775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0bc47a1e9---makoboburamesoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/td1fp55vgerisq39mop9ip9511/80704657570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristinanamaste.eu/files/gitifaxorovafasapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/70283708407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uafbuughd8cm2gnt1a1708e4r4/nazumobowoduzakez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b08079f5463a3d2890ba50968c897a26/11197061365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duonglaohanoi.com/userfiles/file/bifokanatobavej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/notawomijes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e464c49307d---11828735207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/zezevegonujofamotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hattoco.vn/images/ckeditor/files/sexekivirowopozapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9fa6a3bde321c49a4314b608880b7ce/retodidotobijozek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/90199549131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be566312e87---2548060714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59063009e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1a776cdcda---zitujusunakanajuwegebam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff00f66ff6---8369573539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076931194214---risapaxesunit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609182c227d56---32304498668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=customer+centric+sellingPDF 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_off000106ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106AB 17116 bytes
SHA-256: 5023c416daac842d1f0a35db07dda71cab9d89232624b19a3026bca5d4ca0abc
font_01_sfnt_off000132f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132F0 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 20675008d7066ef8cf027895b6bae12cb297ac12658ab13d4261d185fef46890
font_02_sfnt_off00014af9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1