Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a72f7e6aad28705…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-08-21 08:38:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: daeb77cf6224cef1c85e0111c965d58d SHA-1: dec55018e858bdb4a696d0a3d36c7e95c51d7c8e SHA-256: 6a72f7e6aad28705b4248c8f1dc8ee05edde3869e47ebb54de8f547964dc4e44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://mosjob.ru/images/file/79868395316.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://afra24.com/basefile/afra24/files/vovuguxexonil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/toxilutiduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f23b344a24d---66972805974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nensi.si/upload/file/96013150371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/9927003156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/48333126940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/82450038263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c312f417a83---26322760946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863fc698c4e---tirirowuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veaodaibrahma.com/uploads/image/files/21539053337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca6cb3fe7d---naralupalebabipubukiger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/wozesadusozuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b074c4fb1db7feb1cda03894ee186f1/zawiridixuvoseba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97d638fcbd---duparipuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d369dceac69---nurafoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f71e8a70952---83192478010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e9957e675---36914373486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/27104219873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andhimazhai.com/images/files/lowakulelonuwexune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hup58rdk87mo7jb0m66bubphu/tumejizitedikukipowebog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608043478b989---wetodefevuvokubitafudena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb71c9c8998---19273599803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agot.pl/upload/file/75938369958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae49bbb513---bavogelazeduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpnldo72c01ln32ob4mp1i1dk0/57895049858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=tutuapp+apk+pokemon+go+hackPDF 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_off0000e7ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7AD 17152 bytes
SHA-256: 89a897e47e15339ac4e2343e2503b7e8254935ac7e1f5c7e520229f75010ae56
font_01_sfnt_off00011473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11473 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C8A 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 6c25fd99d449b8db9c4d5cbf9503dde05bbb8f3254e5ee258c90d453521b1bec