Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6886a94ffa44c688…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 23:20:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 90b5cc4fb9cd828484c72c35a1628b60 SHA-1: 916fc18828e610e7fb5b555e0ccf2d70fd17d429 SHA-256: 6886a94ffa44c688aeee118a1433ea359d9678ffc39e456fd03afdc56e119719
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely spearphishing attachment used to redirect victims to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reese+witherspoon+mark+ruffalo PDF link annotation
    • http://ikkosushi.com/uploads/files/tusokigelimamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///jomabirakut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c48c7daf1---wubotasedururavawimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f55kkdp8su4g1e4a554k07rpm2/89121272731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3eaaac4e0f5a10ff4306c748be847cd/lisadasakitewaniso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/bafagelod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c0c3bcdf7---barizumewilodugoziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65c5931a94---kewetusalupiditozizonipoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9542471778---54179570725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835c27c63e6---87350984880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tfvvqphevno3ugfhsbfh5b7fd7/nukeduxumuwosape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonuldoviz.com/upload/ckfinder/files/15364794899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d55d276b8ad8f656892db3584c5332df/27652426537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indel.sk/userfiles/file/7316726095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d749552e5f0c4519ee04a5647ea06b4d/38120478425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3sd89u5b30vtplhi3bl37k9603/woxifusejemixisozanogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/xurabamiwadunov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/8715566673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsonplastic.com/uploads/userfiles/file/mosojefixoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae16d13435---taminoredavosigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/pejuvame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2c96108ba---fidetaridulabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/fokegatiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/031958722628df1c87c78e6410f04352/lomepizurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/gasavurubidukidajegas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haustechnik-hagenauer.at/64955710196.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_off0000df00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF00 20544 bytes
SHA-256: 966ea36d63fcb9d32eb9e12a88aa0093a8d9fde410c35399ad3e3d3d21bb8939
font_01_sfnt_off00011288.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11288 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A9F 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 20e49d514437b22d4214f862fe8ef230f7ca12cc8b4036e05f0f4884d171963c