Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b4aed9cea6e93d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 22:48:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a24c9159db6f3a5b07d525b38a4186af SHA-1: 9c6ecb7e82ab1d8f8694062ef6301a086bbd1f8c SHA-256: 6b4aed9cea6e93d45a007a5f3564574911c1ebfe8299c61c294c69cc51de9bff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing further analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+change+a+color+in+photoshop PDF link annotation
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/773cf2b4379bf7d961105e3bff1ba3dc/90063218374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae29619a01---6548174544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62b120fba898cf3b5b2781e8bd9e89c8/lezonedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8e1ca2d49a8b57f2e708feb68155e74/repulemokuselep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160934149d5ce4---zukedikuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crediramasrl.it/public/file/ratowavolapoveruwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/14533705284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4e1047662---22784607755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiriwexaluvogewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cafe10c022b---73496029500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueyee.com/upload/file/221257416640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7acfd9d6d---sigalufopanibomawumudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/taxurofitofaxurakatum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/28787148828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orsini-blasioli.it/userfiles/files/pebusiwobexazoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/isn028r4nliucn6ujeldb11i84/84708349632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///2021061312020_637499179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakesideterracecondo.com/clients/41361/File/gazuzowopojoxobonef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c568ecbdb29---serobovabupuneluxake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829b6f28987---76490413003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/169fd930797aa3f7d8965a2999af1c6d/xulesunifozixewujifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/buwovelixowikok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b93debea8---89423894432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hkmmp6f8q6jt07np8udq87k190/vizojomisutovelofus.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_off0000f1da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1DA 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 8fa4857407319b6b76bf9b3290cd8498f216dadea81cbef3ded89a494dcc6e26
font_01_sfnt_off00010ab5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB5 16992 bytes
SHA-256: f14a39a990493e16aaf760aa706442f53213cd5275fb3f2ebc5a99fc41390200
font_02_sfnt_off00013710.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13710 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1