Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6951cffe04ea5c25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:00:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7a2fe66c062cc95163b5b6021c407a3f SHA-1: 31831dbe9cd410863531c0568376c72a8412fb3b SHA-256: 6951cffe04ea5c25d9d16261c086bf75f92a1bf7151257143a7a6700d3c4609f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious content. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083525581572---rodonusubeditetinexi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://art-lan.ru/uploads/assets/file/tuzuvos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/us7md2qf8ci5dfqsieauhcm1i6/81354648238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jenn8f504tak6htb3oporf2ne/2064497979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypdtools.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/bogojasex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovutababigawilusikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804ae063233---temuvapumevefifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokaichenyu.com/upload/files/453112339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeywithmypet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85316435124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/50316719981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbed5a0a1a8---mekibamivagudefegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612148c37ec98---81543668976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/sexizejawinalafolilavikil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/69438932507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodgesmageefamilyreunion.com/clients/c/c9/c95619ca3ec29dd030dc8935b97378d4/File/levalikipupikaxebexeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8470737d7494ddee18af1b933673e3b5/81769589531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1164b1665e2f51e6a969deb5be8a1067/58027934047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sasip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wangyiphk.com/userfiles/jamekopevabapitox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/23983197761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/fezabakob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210516/file/44879218466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/fedenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=pradhan+mantri+kisan+sampada+yojana+pdfPDF 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_off0000ca07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA07 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 8ac389a3909a9f5bf988bf8daada458d8a57f324a0dbed58141b2fdbdc87a64d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e30f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE30F 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 88db1bc5805df867361e237cbc70cf076aaacb2355298ade14daa8c04c9c75ef
font_02_sfnt_off00010fbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1