Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a8c890d9977de27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-07-16 09:01:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a97c0606fe158976c86436605f21a0eb SHA-1: 2a869011448777fafd4a05bb316974250c15cf09 SHA-256: 6a8c890d9977de27350a0038cafa58ac455db59edc4dc7c1ce53df39015223d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://ancoraeducacion.com/images/25965095540.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cogersquest.com/clients/f/f6/f6194b381802d71b6842d6160e8859b1/File/nufiwetifube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c38754c52b4eb8ea6f27e896955a400c/14465650794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792d6cd1182---wekoxifugurudexeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c344aa43504600dfb2a9943cfd3940f8/56901972532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/87736128682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6de3422f58---jusoroputukojavusitopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/pamafirubarofimubido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bfd07eca8f---35668078329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/natewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f540gvshm5o175av3b1t7idif1/69470102891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607628ea4948f---15677846574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b415b4c2a---fokudasonuwoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4e87b1691da7ed0eb45149710d72f2f/61094752710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/zimedenifoguzuvoxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7692e9a64c93a56f34221c044426a50/5987175990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea62b73a8b---73490760829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternoohydro.com/d/files/98539025245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/togowagagofazalezurexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/413072f3cbd1d55ea29b482e9c5fc137/letapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5f96de0b0a---fufosumexizet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoangeli.it/userfiles/files/mexalaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e1589c0ae---18643705434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c65c3907093---zifafuwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=children%27s+music+quiz+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000f090.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF090 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A2 20508 bytes
SHA-256: 4bb16521a9772f3d47f0fc41f40080a4d177f4b75510b1ef0ef0c915ce678589
font_02_sfnt_off00013c67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C67 11092 bytes
SHA-256: b6ddca767c308275866053183e8b6ed4e11a7e97f8356d42f7037ed0b6381586