Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a6aeb8216e3058c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:04:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cac3a91dd47505416378f425d0ad11b7 SHA-1: e6b15f026ac479a29b45fc7349099979162d2288 SHA-256: 6a6aeb8216e3058c56cc3731b6b5fe538fa7b54ff01bfacda3eb866f0fb8a20b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites utilizing formcraft or super-forms plugins for file uploads. These URLs form a link farm, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, consistent with a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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 http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161334f8970244---kimogopajexibovo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rlagr6tg3i6saauficpn9rnhe/fepilevumoretejuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/pedazosorosorategoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfcf9a8c864---49790263375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetranhtuong.info/luutru/files/sadoxidarubiwumojabevevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10c605a67f096a03dafbabfb61d95561/93244940052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/vasisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/josanozemamanazidaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qzgj.cn/upload/file/migifunomutabex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e151f2e8161a0b7e3cbd3992c3ddbac/xugagag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zigzagontwerp.nl/sites/default/files/file/bomujidamerivug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shieldtech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/menusunovefunajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/32504666094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1ark0cu8eiq1ruoih7oun67s9/17549145364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/79374438644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/lejamedosawike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozszemle.hu/uploads/files/61644945554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e974759c8b---80939947993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saiprogetti.net/userfiles/files/32735583219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a500096bac4---35955722415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designerhouse.ru/upload/files/gogujamijovis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/37728242619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaprosmart.com/userfiles/files/fezowumamulemuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fl9u9rtbrc4bgqrns4540sj01/72087938942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=comment+fusionner+2+pages+pdf+en+une+seulePDF 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_off0000e2ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2FF 18760 bytes
SHA-256: 46993171e4e450b9508bdf6c2e8d9bbf7da16d7140824811336896e864383ca3
font_01_sfnt_off0001121f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1121F 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 37216f33158689424ef95998091a5bf2d2038c33ddde1f32d61c5854b6d91975
font_02_sfnt_off00012bd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1