Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6afbf10f8777f119…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-22 16:46:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 07bfd719a4c7db54633c91a843a7d64c SHA-1: 83918a3c050a2535f39b80e076beb3f7a18cde9e SHA-256: 6afbf10f8777f119bb849d717d39d6a9ed9ad3d4ae9354531865e3881f88be18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file is a PDF that contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content or to manipulate search engine rankings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://iknow.pl/files/file/volikukubofobukakul.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/52898903666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-gold.com/userfiles/files/95646038007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc-israel.ru/upload/files/44425081889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/93440992676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnumprint.ru/upload/files/soletegopowodajop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jgbt.us/pds/userfiles/files/14595503741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobiachau.com/luutru/files/24810044555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210916_062542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/38166775524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ba0efa753273c961b37016bede96aa5/99617153025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stepweystudy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80914165018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142d8159a39a---86217632864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f93d2840d---76626403765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngaa.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wakezepapawijexubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/lofaposemidekiwojokavorit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiw.gbpopatowiec.pl/img/upload/files/xanobiduganavutivukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laconchigliacasevacanze.it/userfiles/files/66995339594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presstone.hu/userfiles/file/10574385019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goralajosesijidozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc1dc612b311292aa26d00cf5225a191/nofitolipixavofax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/jugewedipiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136bc3789ee8---ketanogomugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/voliwoguzobanor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk4education.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sisovew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c1389d59b9507833e882dd0dc53f489/16980878311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=play+opus+files+on+androidPDF 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_off0000d612.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD612 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 203ba788d9a8dfb108cd26589e9733c4d7afbe6c290fc3d823ecf54eec95704f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE70 19536 bytes
SHA-256: 74568e699775cb01251d05c9becf5e6fcfb9d5b719acefa131d6919e416d4828
font_02_sfnt_off00012141.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12141 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1