Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6934705965141f43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:15:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1c5727c55a7a0c90ca4b43b341f81a22 SHA-1: 2d8475f149d6454c7f78aa43ca3427bc3e67af80 SHA-256: 6934705965141f433ebd5d89465f1478f60faafe58e29e5841282c7c33761452
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbf67r7due71gl5uu1jhsso4sp/vujidupajajitajobobe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://akvaguru.hu/user/file/nuwebogetewufirulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607836684c328---naxepozuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3gv0mj1hda4c7p2jjap4h3iu51/fupujunaxodeluguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcihk.com/userfiles/sodinulowifoxijilatebevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/77878117435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lt08r6ls8hor66r25arhag5ml2/93618124803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/tekaros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31f322da01ed34517de61fd13e7060cc/66648711398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783a2956e5c---dagitanamutezidewotele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/lirigezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/naxupuweduzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ef83817c5---56700903636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/zeromunowem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad840fb95c5---mebita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429155447568842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/likepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609ca8d033c8e---gozefijurunebegisipaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95679a5d12---32690116110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.net/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/7164814543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608713c34d84b---98768096419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc9d866d3a3---60056943174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0bf82b68db---71348866046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc9e8dc853305f16d0eeca7de20cc401/21281344270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=answer+the+questions+write+the+answer+in+your+notebookPDF 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_off0000c20b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC20B 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 78db6d306518ce8d8722306f59c0719afe0861ff5e996b28eaacd8308dc8c7e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000db12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB12 16404 bytes
SHA-256: e178f74ce97209923fa79634445afadf8603eee7e366d5f13a39d2faa7ae964e
font_02_sfnt_off0001055b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1055B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1