Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6971a0bdb47393b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 20:02:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8aee17617cdf1bb57ac3ca961a9bb77e SHA-1: 04edd8c79498b88ff4cf71dde17f014288230e60 SHA-256: 6971a0bdb47393b03efce5d39f7a5be657481694c622125b63a690fec0f2a162
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific intent beyond the presence of these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/41465187419.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5202e75c7f770b5f2ad6f09db8d4e49a/85528382333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benjamin1908.com/clients/f/f4/f4560e3fe432b95d15e234f900dec36a/File/degiwugokarabudoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saokienviet.com/uploads/image/files/nugorofowexokus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/8442086379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suapaiatuipelehakefamily.com/clients/80707/File/xifemupadipitofofujuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cailux.lu/userfiles/files/munuketa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/18307529050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609093d709b2a---fapobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/pakin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/30200168802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a879fab1020b76503bf14cfab01da5a1/musikarifuvufilasofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcd482a3b5d---jobodabefat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa7ccebc64---jubeleverukarike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b1f9337e1---rewokuredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/wezibiduxoxotajaxulawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c60f4d9a3---gakagekako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lidapa2ulvfmblohl67br03l7/fojenogegizoledixinijowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0a8a77fe9f---tosedisenivopiboponuxiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moyamoya.center/images/hand_uploaded/files/50278935382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/24462289384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb72d29799---bidawuzanurulajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab677d7c8ed---setisoxizuxupixiwake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c955eed744---45551625654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=the+product+of+two+consecutive+even+integers+is+528PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A0 11368 bytes
SHA-256: 4250d271585a58a1e0ef52ea33ed5753355f28369a3d3ef044726c437ca03227
font_01_sfnt_off0001134e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B5F 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 450eea5fc67953cc3bdc764260aa6f1739571c17331c9588074966c3dbef4c6c
font_03_sfnt_off00014090.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14090 19104 bytes
SHA-256: 65cf1e13d9bc1f9e9be0a86b8259c6d9dc23cdccc5818f9d0afd81a151d8a1ad