Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a7c649ed1da14a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-31 04:57:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 698951be6c7d2c1898ad0906bdb3f683 SHA-1: 5bf6b8b5fa56cbda7a6b41395bc0f64493f81a2c SHA-256: 6a7c649ed1da14a135fa2186b5d653cece6ea60d9f621cc7ca796582f502ac5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's part of a phishing or spam campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URL analysis confirm a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://meskerjager.nl/media/files/vivoloxuduxakulakanox.pdf
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8f59939bf---xiberakefuwizajune.pdf
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c9ec6ea07d079a329d9289d94c39629/damilebabasapokolavewo.pdf
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e13e2ec0fe62503cd5deec1dc6c3d0b9/vozezopirijiziruk.pdf
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f775f6d1f8---jafogufi.pdf
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f77c04769---28696898469.pdf
    • http://waterreducer.cn/d/files/5243355940.pdf
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2ef950330---pawolaroketa.pdf
    • http://zartmobilia.com/userfiles/file/20210525210818.pdf
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb8b14e004---48972221411.pdf
    • http://sunarfactory.com/userfiles/files/27381379953.pdf
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/16075215864.pdf
    • http://knowleangling.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10295559529.pdf
    • http://tentauto23.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26488998952.pdf
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5456351a257f2d1ce82394ef44ebcab/futuvulosufoz.pdf
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa091113a71---77250415456.pdf
    • https://webshopplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/46161598686.pdf
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc9b58cd83---todofijebofasa.pdf
    • http://greenvisioninternational.gm/userfiles/file/71243326660.pdf
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077714c91b28---42184626891.pdf
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/713764df528e0b4e59c955a22ef1fe41/warawaxalebuduvazowibes.pdf
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7ada893e69080fa3e01b030058f6993/32427827160.pdf
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ho31iqjmitpdh6bilmmbuciltc/39875277781.pdf
    • http://wagnerfamilyreunion.com/clients/866685/File/pofilatasamoxopekefabu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=el+lenguaje+del+adi%C3%B3s+meditaciones+diarias+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_off0000eaa1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAA1 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000102b3.bin
a8c605a36d479dd33213103421e671876b3c2a6557fcc44154aeee0036824dee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B3 17748 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f2b.bin
46ab76b5962139b7b21371bf6dba2ed2acf85c8edcc93f814583b12033f39f89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F2B 11312 bytes