Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6830b31be75076a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 06:29:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 20266ad9ce6554541ca40616a7da7d58 SHA-1: bca36c7d66e6c902165f95cc3a608f096b74c371 SHA-256: 6830b31be75076a7cf8eb00bd3119452c71c29efbb09334b00fc2d1b05e60d55
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, serving as a distribution mechanism for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://viettelhaiphong.me/data/dulieu/files/82760459777.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5911745030b5674359723d7b7405d7df/36842405461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6d135ac324da39f1ca8a15bb68230d9/18886963795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5fgpg2c3hglh73mpr8k4oovd6/banosabegaxemogifogojomex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/075a3d127c7f2e4cbf88d9516fb4b894/namel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/zofugadudukodave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamhelios.vn/luutru/files/93728301925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/wigasilesazerudizerewufiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westleyden72reunion.com/clients/4/46/469dc9162705cbff2d1fbe132f144f37/File/fizuwikididani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ot7adhmoab9hvtfg2ag78ro04b/kovojaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d88085a31339ee6a99e34f559a784f5/simamutijobaxafis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/28834410723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f014640fbd---23036907845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangs78.com/clients/66216/File/nanibofulivedirurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opuntia.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/548bbd217db4949c93e47c03182f651f/55627929573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804c7a0d6ee---66885680185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ca3f15318---maviwovupizumutafuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/87538285521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthoinfo.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00332In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=trapped+nerve+in+bicepPDF 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_off0000efd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107EE 10244 bytes
SHA-256: b759911dc97d2628b9a3b7adc97721d5d259213e37d6191a9224d70e9ad4dd92
font_02_sfnt_off00011ec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EC9 16404 bytes
SHA-256: 55c93929071db6f4c75b94a4f7cc23d26972f3f97c8ebd314e08a3f756003e5f