Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a6ed15f51ec4879…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-30 21:31:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e64c6d3d62938ac84c511746252a4695 SHA-1: 3b43d14c0f3a2647153fb67c829b5d7518c574d8 SHA-256: 6a6ed15f51ec48791b231fec99fbe74aa6c1b5cf8fae49ac10d3a45bc488481c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it is used to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614082119f929---febonasajobomozunamufisa.pdf
    • http://juicy-group.com/editor_upload_image/file/22460586462.pdf
    • https://mlmrockstars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/penekutakilakuwe.pdf
    • https://samsungklimamodelleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/22986096009.pdf
    • http://shriadinathbank.com/uploads/59426819864.pdf
    • http://www.blueoak.fr/image/file/88467652572.pdf
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/sileduzexuxowijovipoguw.pdf
    • https://smsenerji.com/resimler/files/41940644881.pdf
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614747f792d8f---51001136063.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614049c0b7de5---10700748059.pdf
    • https://www.cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74233052501.pdf
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/fezotuvavefim.pdf
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23ce024cfc59f78e33bafaea255b475a/88552579391.pdf
    • https://svarovanijelinek.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95466584246.pdf
    • http://gamecoast.by/uploads/files/nosipidoresa.pdf
    • https://indobaliart.com/sitefiles/file/sewowuxofatipej.pdf
    • http://maketmaster.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ragifanonumi.pdf
    • https://htijsr.com/userfiles/file/86624095975.pdf
    • http://shinyoungvalve.com/userData/board/file/16259385326.pdf
    • http://barahi.com/assets/userfiles/files/31262806131.pdf
    • https://apteka-wratislavia.pl/halatecza/userfiles/file/najakuvodi.pdf
    • https://lyonsinn.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/16269947565.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=the+largest+country+by+area+in+the+world
    • http://crossfit28.com.s125853.gridserver.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/linewe.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_off0000b899.bin
d0226641831ac69130897e001c0e6bef6264780fffcfe5b169e1728469441406
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB899 11052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d22c.bin
d4d09e059e59d34a2d38b822ef3c15e46cf56f06dc848686c3090cf19a53325e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD22C 18912 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001018d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1018D 16792 bytes