Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a4699c05cd6a15c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-06-11 12:08:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5bc57808fafe5399729f231d9a55618b SHA-1: 89100986813d8936460655f8233f4addb2237456 SHA-256: 6a4699c05cd6a15c6a57d7a7f0efb45e68dae38a3aeae9d204768896ed4c14d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish for credentials. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be related to MP3 song downloads, a common lure for malicious documents. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ve+tu+long+mai+lachi+mp3+song+download
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076583dbed79---novema.pdf
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/jupifurir.pdf
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a51f1a291b5---puvazokoraraw.pdf
    • https://villatoscana-pi.it/userfiles/file/4420371959.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502225646401420.pdf
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/13439209471.pdf
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca76c68b18---mijemerepubuvuj.pdf
    • http://circuitvietnamcambodge.com/hinhanh/file/47922931820.pdf
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609afc94a8f22---61477895913.pdf
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2401025295---safigajuzirir.pdf
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c82f126f15---86027262379.pdf
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e922cec04f7f410f3e2e14b7efd88e98/9566761908.pdf
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc55a98d19---lojufixutowigem.pdf
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43d1536cab---28938652681.pdf
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/kufodir.pdf
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768c080e9db---disemukowexukewotoxo.pdf
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba4591f07d2---51811658943.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4e1.bin
46ff501dd744ce592e21f1051d49c286561b5e00bdb05074ebd5cc783e20d951
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E1 6536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f50b.bin
e97a8e3268cb2b22cab856779b38c826122116a9f84ba9cb75e1acbfa2293fcb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50B 5612 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001080c.bin
17285167d5ab190828ee9a89419052094df4248e1bc26dc85d2b116b31ed3921
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1080C 4452 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000117e6.bin
826b8f258d74e5137515da373d5f59d6a83a2af11d1791e7f2c79f7ded56f0da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117E6 10904 bytes