Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a149f4d4cdc26a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:06:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4b2cc9476f779450f66ff914a82da268 SHA-1: 8b5cfb80ef94d4b5819c80809a9231d6d2fe07fa SHA-256: 6a149f4d4cdc26a8416760dcac7ef15f294eff880f81536685616d9b11e0dbf6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests an attempt to track user engagement with potentially malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=good+paying+low+stress+jobs PDF link annotation
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949f2e1bd6d---3620569967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhv2a8bqp4s0ou40idrd1h0on6/rukezededopag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/23991788771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/2554603860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windmill-bv.com/userfiles/files/67403351535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/boganuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750219e7e39---gesibilesax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bd4a19a9c6e2c1e91e88dd7d6e8570b/54282647979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eda56c0332f1f4ff17b2c359b5af2c83/bizubipibuwaledi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f6d78t9ej0tu1pinipj8h6as0/85346348094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cafd12e582e---roxoxana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/53160658828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8a54482ee---bomub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bd9rfj8nmm7n6ne80d9929nlu/mazozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da54fdaad71---99963627561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8fe296791---wijavajujowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/47988299238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce81cecaeb---63172690427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e32705987e014f9fb5bf17f48d06b61/12967950700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01f092e1a68aa965a75340f4ee9a2d3a/30150317840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/ligibomogidugepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fqcycpa.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210607172614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fdf8f76a41---47492328221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b056ea7421---gugekow.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_off00011018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11018 11076 bytes
SHA-256: 2168cbbee16f6a18a3ed4f200165008068d51d53e7df760c9914aeb423809cf8
font_01_sfnt_off000129af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000141c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141C1 16860 bytes
SHA-256: b9a3323b9d0064d4a38fa8eded89460f6ca27aea1ed4bbb969e405d7248a0e95