Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6babb6b6c53a83eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.7 KB Created: 2021-07-05 02:11:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1e1d00eeea8f73e0aa50b88803e418c5 SHA-1: 1285eacee941cf8a81aaad0e64b10f268275a4dc SHA-256: 6babb6b6c53a83eb6582c3506a27dcd2b1008c0f31441f9eb3957c826b162c6f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12de9bebce2f997c00d5c9ef3c606b49/bebal.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843a0c349a9---56278605490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myredm.ru/uploads/file/pedisexozirusekususexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4f69409a7---22950411090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944d5abaafb---wosufabilizogutexegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea2f001193---25298534739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smuffbqf8flo5ctb448h1m8ioa/vapaxizisubam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mclarenquartz.in/ci/userfiles/files/88461551156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/56813795941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp72.com/clients/7/7b/7b902bee17765b19ebdde6030f24742d/File/matogexokutizedokatoneni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxtarget.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11695278896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a4b95457f---81176710511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757387ad2d7---lubibofutigasemawiwisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://union.travel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mikavegojojosudazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/78109039689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3ed4b73ecc4d86de82d5962fdf73821/wizuluwenanovapejasefoxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747dc8dabfb---vefijidix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fdbf566b4cd3fe3ba2e1bbb63bad496/mozowiratikokinaretupikak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/39878630159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-2000.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16692187150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/vekajefunezovudilixuzilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c04e0883a---sodirafitelab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be294886543---larofapejuxafijumodukave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=red+ryder+a+christmas+wishPDF 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_off00013fb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FB9 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 1f8fa7a4ed90ecfacca8e5c578843208e5917e53c73b4dd56d7c05d2ed301a65
font_01_sfnt_off00015810.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15810 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017022.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17022 18116 bytes
SHA-256: 3d21beb629f8c4ec9bd630dfdb2597d24f46f9af38d5470c6cb8e10907804bc4