Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b5f1bdb4f0ed36c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-09 19:49:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 4b33ace9b80e53dc9f19762c6219d32b SHA-1: 9049c10b033f1db17882334b474a669931539356 SHA-256: 6b5f1bdb4f0ed36cfa608977d946332fece251f27dedfe163fa6ada51fe1d18d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on potentially compromised CMS upload directories or disposable domains. This suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/lopisunafazagufupekome.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b90067dad---40461935785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panegovernance.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/file/fofafepumarar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a75265d09e73deca1d99abe196738627/56546073119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/supepudugadisulotasogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/162pabjukftt1ml9uc7qpp1tia/zoxurijunitiwiroxiwikuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105130254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa4b8873c1---nidumunagajanidijamasun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gkjachec6j7903iptien11gt84/48768782226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5ut4i72dn30lbisrs7s39n1va/mitovamiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3c97489d1---goxuwobivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaletsuenodesol.de/files/pozevivud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a12ea02d8cca9d647f1f2428acb949e3/lasupabiwavosus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/rejus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0c571718a---26868895952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b21cf3b8a91---61213803379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaimano.it/file/zotobeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ece28671e219573217927960174b82b3/mixuravol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa19c91ccc---rivuxufavitexejedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a084fae1301---mugasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/kitowosujebetupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/465de66de8af83401ad3620b5e408200/zuvitoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfd46d19db4---tuguxuzuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c69df37c830---68837273084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/36373584522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=hing+is+good+for+healthPDF 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_off0000eb22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB22 16788 bytes
SHA-256: f6f71b4b630bc0dbb1a93e7fc8d3dfe3000d59b98809ad739fb70aa75660c592
font_01_sfnt_off000116d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012eef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EEF 10624 bytes
SHA-256: d60e5bc5600babfb64b14df1afa80e3d2a0894f4f0647d50718a8d43646c22b6