Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a1bead29cb8ca9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-28 04:57:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 5b3f32ca56d4af79807f613ce336cfa8 SHA-1: 9bd5e0eee4cc2bc07aaf0739bf48e9cd074de195 SHA-256: 6a1bead29cb8ca9af8932f0f702c4d05b64f25827935839a98374722ee257281
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or further malware delivery.

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://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc52bbaffe492fc5fed11367a57b7173/8966953589.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/934ae65ba312f3ad8abb814c3b8a1d37/3048785166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/bivuwuzileli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/gagowaripojebatuvodarevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799666506f2---16057920935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e1f8a0b78---54715004253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samnakthodrahassob.com/userfiles/file/23156673817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunarent.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sonusozegutivomajoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/131672617360c56aa03d0a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cba60.com/clients/6/6c/6c2dd71b6188bc8e8f5adc6209c6f86c/File/4560328225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gukenopusokinevivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae513e5c32---91818726794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021071304302280554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruilong-ironwork.com/CKEdit/upload/files/tezojopoputipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/75450744564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/witazaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ed2a08f152---71831426467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noblacklist.pro/web/img/podborky/files/76131642766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/79984317353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugsinc.in/UserFiles/files/teturenafelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a350cfd0db52be02b9167477864147b6/vekokupitipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ad601161e---66895703553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3f7750ab2---98587610772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=reaccion+de+sustitucion+simple+ejemplos+en+la+vida+cotidianaPDF 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_off0000e853.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE853 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010065.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10065 17996 bytes
SHA-256: 49e03c3cce45e20be42218ff88f059d46be9336ef61b35ac96a392ff6cde2dc7
font_02_sfnt_off00012e70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E70 10916 bytes
SHA-256: a8490831f4d3ea1ffaad893a3880ae68b335a1ff3d11076e95ed45f4b207da9e