Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bfe4b959a0aead0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-06-12 01:09:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 659a6cbb05e0db0afc44d61377dc6d97 SHA-1: 2bb8265193ff911d06144fd8601be80862c9a6b7 SHA-256: 6bfe4b959a0aead06ce437f225ddb3f07109af60428589a9eaed97e2ee37303f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting it functions as a link farm or redirector. The presence of a 'utm_term' parameter in one of the URLs points towards a phishing or spam campaign aiming to drive traffic to specific content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pichaikkaran+songs+mp3+download PDF link annotation
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdade80e20---66381206226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3e3k0iliqeilj1p2tdqf1orqt/vemovotominewarulefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4add21a0277c0061e51005f0dc68c7e8/wowunumasexivoleju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4411ce1db9e59e7aa43e56c1648a6adb/xonolafefekanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d22b8d75d---71706302764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopsch.de/uploads/file/bipuliforowudexojoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cce8971566717ee3211ae39f414954f1/90674941816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/76792502250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22b3b09d419db17dbb866c1707f0339d/xadozesuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kq9st5cua0viv40ao4pulnv7hb/25786159888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c119b50f75b---31605001230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8286f14f3---xubuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jur99qbt6f5941vetf4emvp72/sozerugiwixino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ce397308a6dcf2656171f10b5b88124/90035162263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/pilazak.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1F4 5808 bytes
SHA-256: 78586471a9a38e2b975254da40f9ba8b62a338b4f7db7f96ffa930fe1b0f5bb1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A7 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 1d0367656c168f5f9c8bb88ea115d3656a9f1a4c7c0f689ed84127ab5e3921b0