Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a08367f131edcea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 17:46:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7dfa33c8ce9ae626d31acb8be5557ea4 SHA-1: c75551bdcb09d7cd3f380b0d036e9099e0023d07 SHA-256: 6a08367f131edcea7982b07fc7556c57d6edde23ee2d58cf0b1fc09e644a0b47
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URIs pointing to external resources, including raw IP addresses and compromised WordPress upload directories. Heuristics indicate a link farm structure and a high ML score for maliciousness, corroborated by ClamAV detection. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of multiple malicious links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://211.129.1.225/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guzaxakapuxewavo.pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://chaukitchen.com/uploads/files/68177245078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozt.zielonetarasy-cieplice.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/74300156788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161380e676e7a5---40096081031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/dupoloja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.groupe-coelho.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/girep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smalternatywa.pl/media/upload/files/e7c07826af46511bc863f80d387098ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gld-lining.com/user_img/files/15994840046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1larl033julc58hbk5ka6erigp/69784882306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b3a40db315---43038665959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soeurs-scjboran.fr/soeurs/upload/files/1091999537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expobar.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/lowulapazazajezowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/99976736792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefineart.com/assets/202109/files/20210914143010643198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mitrasuksesku.com/userfiles/file/50771361002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budka39.ru/files/bovolinigobusuzuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kht.civilkozpont.hu/uploads/file/vapopusaxonix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/79257732939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c7c1cae1dc---saziduwuvizobunowafebul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mathcountsoutreach.org/userfiles/file/xawev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdblue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78229387203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castel.lu/userfiles/files/kuraxesabutarupiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.info/userfiles/file/79356062728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=benefits+of+disconnecting+from+technologyPDF 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_off0000dbf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBF1 17492 bytes
SHA-256: 7fe1c379b12030ac949941ae5c141a78fc6f592bfa493103b0250eb1305be209
font_01_sfnt_off000109b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B2 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 92826b30231fb36f30750db602f89f4dbe1e2478a28e4e3ba36c01f48f41d2dd
font_02_sfnt_off000122a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1