Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ae5d267d2450672…

MALICIOUS

PDF

139.0 KB Created: 2021-06-13 11:27:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f67f38fa8b50f3b0b366a4297ce1444e SHA-1: 633f1dd0525e8eb50fdd6ae5296600a2b5821002 SHA-256: 6ae5d267d24506721e7ab2bba17a5902dbbfa91a7a85a773ce15bfd69011b80f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The heuristic firings indicate it functions as a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the primary goal being to lure users through these 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=raiden+mortal+kombat+moves+ps4 PDF link annotation
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b060fb9338fc4caabfc1a1bfe25a8653/88746692122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/sefitufixemoxukitezusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61445f65972b40c18866d25b84fa2059/36745830267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd02cc7b5d---78254632003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/tajunazobikeborugolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a258d6566c---13274280899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d75bdf12b---29710790477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/47722861464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aecf856a161264871ec10b74ba065fe/jawetupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/693qiu0nqo989b1bq8d69hoss4/sixosemejilutirinogeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbfec9b336---14768481527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7cda1be00---dukevuvuxuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a52fe6ebdd81f41a27b5ddcac2e96300/juxegofulagifijivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ec10a3c16---wetepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799c148c41f---gazitabosagabuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/fuwiluxijenakojamemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36b3d476b1---ditixitiwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bt184nctt08pm4bgo976440fqd/nowusovazom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001e235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E235 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 73318ff11a8cbae4227f71bab25b9300840dda8252322d1572437e21d8f60fc0
font_01_sfnt_off0001f4bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F4BF 12520 bytes
SHA-256: 8060a68955b2ab49709837d0ed0524312221a895f01fb5f4ac14dc7602cc087b