Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ae45a2da2c4924d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-06-09 04:23:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3398137d1f02e4f88f3a35d9c643b355 SHA-1: 2ebaf6774ddbddff6e69912a812ccb7b25e2893f SHA-256: 6ae45a2da2c4924dffa28a380e57a72fb4024bdeefbd12e20e0cf0d9df66b9b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a distribution mechanism for further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to 'Dls19 profile data' and the wkhtmltopdf tool, likely serving as a lure to entice users to click on the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dls19+profile+data
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h9roio4s0jolnugl5ulviaj9d7/78122654423.pdf
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857573cb677---pegifejudok.pdf
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728dc09fdbd---pujikikazenewuz.pdf
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad9edc1bc1a72d6df1de9858ae30b1db/godatu.pdf
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/nerofazidukasexoro.pdf
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27535310789.pdf
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/53310572612.pdf
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a93c26a5059---duzasuboden.pdf
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/30050032223.pdf
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c19faeb2d---borog.pdf
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/153b4cb269a440dd140ac8cc102d7e85/toxinujituj.pdf
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdp1rudibqukr7pql642n7sgu1/96077013732.pdf
    • http://pnktools-th.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27683645275.pdf
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/widipasakakosupuna.pdf
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc38eb7dd83481f32accbd359ba2a7e4/rewik.pdf
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4d3a4979b---3752585118.pdf
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/64271859598.pdf
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9431f305f---fukeputebazumotir.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • 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_off0000e270.bin
a477fe4fe2b15280a59badb35077174180feac2d373cec185db7f3553bf8ca1a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE270 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f453.bin
57ea17d5c0c579fbd0153ef6ba95f5f67e2ad60460264a58bd08c9f441584f9b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF453 11112 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a2a.bin
007377d672ad35e960bd13d3f92b574e68300ebd174b34df27fa78aa6545cdcd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A2A 16076 bytes