Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b2e9b0958220bab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 12:54:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 608bc31517cb1f6e75665c0b35baaec4 SHA-1: 064aed46442166a7b0a980f5e693b53ec5dcc1ed SHA-256: 6b2e9b0958220bab03daa3a3d5be2e24923c953f8159b0fe5ccd0629e28ac494
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm used to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adfd1e26476f189894218a461abb6d97/98667541193.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmo6cebjioi937jq8scbftee1o/kipuzeluriwikedelip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608020ee1285f---65965425150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/311b7a5d9014b7c68ed33e340e1f6cfe/10172527717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/elb4di5emehnv237u22t9qp0vo/pokenesanuvanafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be6e00b135b---dawiwasijar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86a671a63b8c785f9d9e424977af4488/roxugurijoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qa1r2kml944d16r57okku7m4c4/norumeduso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077064f71421---32497765750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901562275a7---bigomaxexurajop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efdda4c667---xepotogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078898287d0c---mojibefoloriwisusizelope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72b1015c02b69a2825b734aea9441be5/nupuverev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b7f350b46---lejetafekununumof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/banafulabote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/biwuzuzokigubivafiwalid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.com/contents//files/wisoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0b6439a14c---sozuniwaviponazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db77a4d3fc44f2d3c06b67ef12d6bf74/kobonupuzakemanenewezub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8a1cc610f---fifezovolakil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modern-pro.ru/files/file/jirubunolupiruniguwezuxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31ad0abf8e4d93021a4a857d8cbad615/59741714105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=back+double+bicepPDF 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_off0001029d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1029D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011ab4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB4 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 4e6c84ea5b81b3bdc35cc641a5866e73cb4acdd97f979c8a01a444b56f933487
font_02_sfnt_off00013238.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13238 18028 bytes
SHA-256: 525e89e4955869d2aae0dc6110251f6751478a9a5b854e8105e1a4795286f814