Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a6060e039dbc6f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 10:47:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6cbc2557ae5397f942244e34c3beaa4a SHA-1: 3a8db7f45545d1efa6be93a39fca96cebba24d25 SHA-256: 6a6060e039dbc6f6576e41ef67ffb47993ce0d8df392f64b066d32a5c1311f5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. Several URLs extracted from the PDF are hosted on potentially compromised WordPress or other CMS platforms, suggesting a distribution mechanism for further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4ce6fe95a24a5d8c24d27359d248745/80830915742.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ugm5m75i31lal8ecqsdg10jnb1/kotomukuzodase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/mazemuraxenivuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d2e9d93a7---98967411928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/wezedoluwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baf84406cb4---welogugejar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nrubgnkil9v1j5ldhm9ssucuk7/25241441039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvtno263iop6f9c5cvopi1ie17/53096826533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b8bfc3edd1---9629365502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/nudutapasixojesagukuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ad0f3868d3912bef190402684b34d52/3840600244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/11810103225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/42389007549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmu8m2qbl5912f66mns01eouo7/kewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a129ed232---dufurexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88n86fdntosbsq9kfdsvl4r26d/60209933119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khodahoanglang.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/55262223667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77d7bda4bb---vifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d830adf1b61e45085b52e8135061be82/31447167881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2vc72n5jjl78aca9eabbimftq/9536830842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chretkinia.pl/userfiles/file/29267069229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/57800345665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/109d41239e87d944777719628f29ed75/27718640280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e4afdc846---novuviwivudaditiveleje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=what+should+be+in+italics+in+apa+referencingPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8e542416895585e1266eed19a79b5b5/bovanug.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_off0000f1d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D4 11132 bytes
SHA-256: a22b3882b66b75f29d7299f48d55a35694127cafc3da6765a542d52516c1f55e
font_01_sfnt_off00010b5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012371.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12371 17168 bytes
SHA-256: b06b3cb953ac43235bd65c4f4b43ccade1a92a9876e4fc23067695450140727d