Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b89ed29aa23fb73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:37:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ddd4d818f782a74e5627a9bac81805af SHA-1: 92c36a8e7d343e01e91d078191abf165e71c1780 SHA-256: 6b89ed29aa23fb73d8272bda9fd1943c66f37b692e931a42416c24b602b3cff8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within plugin upload directories. These links are likely used to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4e520b66dd17faf422d4b2df3124128/sifibosu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ddd2440b02---bowawukenimarozopovolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/084126aad0287199bd8714c4811c1373/kogewadabono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6m15u9irme2c1kieqhcrlkpao/befur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098acfca076e---27945410219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a972d84ed4969565f2fd116e77682b5d/43044210871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160978df5cdebe---12126865104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonacorsi.it/file/72951559415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838da2904fd---gapipevumevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents//files/30685462671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6947092464---50143438841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/temolagajanesixirubofuteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l82bs5lat1vhhkqtv19c7i6fuh/19825383960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765486ce23f---17640816815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7td1q7hfmoe5melg6q8ts7ukh1/15908664371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f05870c04f---gegirixututelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodomacnosti.net/data/file/92021253609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/siminotosexore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfbdd5bf29690ec510683b828eadafdf/bewadifadofixufula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d97e836231---81608960653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzysztofmalec.pl/gfx/fck/file/gotanazutinotulosulepivob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16d2106270cf8179864d03e5f44148b3/34918429024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074530a33cef---zamin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c34da1827---xubisogofodisurimiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a01d218dff9e5cab03f9850724bdac93/kikufapifura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=whats+counter+clockwisePDF 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_off00012e17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E17 16908 bytes
SHA-256: 2d4c20e441575cc7e14c0ab7c020564f7671e28cb44c53b8e2d147dff7f4d54f
font_01_sfnt_off000159fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017213.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17213 10596 bytes
SHA-256: d2c3ee045890dd3cd6e043042a696e932ffb7f70a6cb1241d774c2cfe69bad07