Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a522bb6803eeddb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 00:33:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 389cbc0658c72ea2f3ffef43f6f8e79b SHA-1: 6b2b3ef54cbda64826b94081a836aefb56197d4e SHA-256: 6a522bb6803eeddb1c4374c4ff6c70d3d6fef6a8500ed6b4adaf95eba9d161ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV both flagged this PDF as malicious, with ClamAV specifically identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=picture+lookup+iphone
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/069df4c09ccc9573733fb0c032edc596/75797460400.pdf
    • http://dungcubepgiangtrinh.com/webroot/img/files/fiturasafirozadavam.pdf
    • https://ldoris.com/upfile/files/20210701154858.pdf
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f3e34af7ef6336a68056c809b191ed2/kejeruzugebaka.pdf
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073611416126---73182153864.pdf
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608046ade2c59---7731213957.pdf
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f2c8176cde3eb3e71314c846b4cfb5b/13352863699.pdf
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/zavavanoxafirolixogapawe.pdf
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f267c8791505cdb8d2b94b954e4669b9/dubarezixukuxoru.pdf
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/182768623.pdf
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/2024119167.pdf
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210512085935_979574563.pdf
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607401ce791e7---xedutujeva.pdf
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5fde00a1e---lowedoze.pdf
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc16061132d---62276551733.pdf
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/63402868312.pdf
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ar2kgt73qudiukdu3tqgbv9ij/66662123649.pdf
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/22811229309.pdf
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tes6ldmr92bkgqjtasjss9ehgi/47063582917.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d2ad2b45c---5736882056.pdf
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1jhnps5h5ckb4sub17a4evafd2/77972594026.pdf
    • http://instalater-macecek.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwuf.pdf
    • http://teleinwestor.com/userfiles/file/86092220826.pdf
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca1fdec9f0bbcb3af481fd4664a70528/77088182615.pdf
    • 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/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e967.bin
53f49f2a826e46124ecb5b5c4abdabc8529a6838190d6d3b52784f0e9a7ea634
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE967 17004 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011533.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11533 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d4a.bin
5a0db1a2a9afecbce66e54716a7971d21855cff508cd0f24e1ff62e16f6ae1bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D4A 10332 bytes