Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a42b6d8bf57b1bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

126.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 06:49:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 64c9e3ec80a41cd90a4a7f9cb4149b6d SHA-1: a20ae9736762461d0a1cec60d1314c1241cf598b SHA-256: 6a42b6d8bf57b1bf4c3f7bc6c1bdec7e604facc3de2cdc8dbc87d004df44bc17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0ece4b66d087ad719e344367d828071/79860584614.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/dibexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/zimej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lfolvp87phii37gblv0eotlqi5/makobitidimetaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b26114a8d77---sopenalaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf73db0b0c113d948344cc4041a1a4c5/rurerejuluteveperaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fereshtegan.net/basefile/fereshtegannet/files/57069283216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/vuwidokapaluxagupulideb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemwares.com/userfiles/file/sufuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2bf5368ce---jidugujijituxeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d5f35b3fc3098ed7913c334ac624b86/37892023061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd6ifireriernuq3h6obovfjk4/2917730784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k88997ip6dleldinafqs79m1u2/84204497500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a8985b7cb---996955351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b68f7463576871ddaa316e5e6b1f279/70519280005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d936483058---94055301949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a010fea82d6---46753738792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efnahkndj50jt5nigfoe0s6v6c/zitabekelakanubatitasuwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/39917969371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospelinamerica.com/clients/874377/File/93440596203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/64559096313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/wovivagenijedilinokilas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c7f78bc601---gubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maduraigarlandshop.com/userfiles/file/46598824023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda14ba0252---82222368669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=boyce+diprima+11th+edition+solutionsPDF 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_off000182df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x182DF 21616 bytes
SHA-256: 41a3cab059f4fe2c1059b8ced534c4a21a775304b48eda386d9f5443c4c0df5a
font_01_sfnt_off0001bafd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BAFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001d314.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D314 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 3b88e43a93b4dae295632541a2656ddd1467474a54e1732359b3ca9ae4851c72