Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ab74846e45e2201…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 14:54:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4d5de57324e86ff5cde0caca9029730e SHA-1: 94f3557e6cc2f8aa395d2ba433654e88fc69ccf6 SHA-256: 6ab74846e45e22017dce07c142c72e0a58fd494a623c2f6f6f7082be86db8c61
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=most+common+american+first+names PDF link annotation
    • http://mn-print.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fewimafevusizutojafolape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072da9ab435e---68118166482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a584c50a271---movubuxiveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f07171606f8a5ce5be2276758fd3d174/mopunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/64703446192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaldiskibus.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210620_85D07A15C09A7D47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a60e0a39b3---40675225818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63da2c56b9---fadejapifovusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/femakotinigoxorid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/48893443062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab60477d112---14835638406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785a20c31eb---57042565852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf1d403c70f35b8e91ed9de80ffe2749/delojisulofosajufumikepag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a23cc42245151fbb5508f8a24189f55f/66360158400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6332a4601d---gipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74b512bc12f8dc0c5fb95ba88d37914b/9969666898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf4cf51b9f258c0705f8438fd498ec9a/82712589757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db5966ee2cd9386a29e3d429223e0b19/semewepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b71163615---garigovemeveguxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e77ff8df896a6db287cbadcb0a6052b6/resezibotaneledesarof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/liwofazepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/17408093195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/zabexobuzelulebaxuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a50a85f819cc9038db21fae54805dc46/vewit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729f226541a---7009218744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e9cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E2 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 4d3df72f7724fd8d376a9b8e90de1e18e2e486a20ea8d02941567e90cfa9b9bf
font_02_sfnt_off00011992.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11992 16804 bytes
SHA-256: d43bd68ec76bb139eec21edc08633044dd72cb4898cc5aea2d514cf61d216b62