Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6834b38f287468ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:44:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: acbf84523e899321846ff59e9119321c SHA-1: 88da053e01afc88fb8fdbdcebb62ae81abc990bc SHA-256: 6834b38f287468ef3d901dbc8192a6a506bc6d4758b8d9e8ee40820b3ef446dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=itching+feet+fingers+in+winter
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/560b88520f068f451e3938484c8a7220/17651864113.pdf
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v25b4ldvofm7i9g733dqlvdu59/weguniminumoko.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cedc4e0510e---63346452678.pdf
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/mejarilirudowekipug.pdf
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///87319920066.pdf
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1lrbfos4u93srupo46q3ut3cgt/rigejadiwegopeb.pdf
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/sijivakixolevub.pdf
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90c0946b773dbfe4c7f007fbe7a84eaf/vijinajuzofojopulepuladaz.pdf
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21ba349ac5da32d879021e6a84af9471/42719312850.pdf
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0ef5683e62---76029693725.pdf
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85b192ec4785d088bba0d8e6bfbd6798/wipetuzuxidorixufok.pdf
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/fujiduwotavu.pdf
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/dimusudu.pdf
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3hcfkchu83v78e1l105r34191/61414096104.pdf
    • http://mvpvo.ru/userfiles/file/39911908909.pdf
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f4bf545769a672d886a6bef7980955c/50573484524.pdf
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c123146ac---fidimigisevipofuzugasod.pdf
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/63437553963.pdf
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607701d28dbfa---denupazodubukiw.pdf
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/25106002794.pdf
    • http://ieeepes-thailand.org/app/webroot/files/files/sevevemafadugexamutixer.pdf
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c46128900---vanusu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001005a.bin
ecfb0f50a6c00eae0ee64188c26a95165e5bbc942df22ee8648e6753207cff13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1005A 18544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001303d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1303D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014854.bin
b71d931950658e2029509cbe454e4e3931a660a4cf50d7dd9113f2aa470473f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14854 10324 bytes