Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c0029bdc348bcaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-08 02:10:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 700095c3a3cc4267a7f9f96c4dd6ff6a SHA-1: 89f3cf1cc22502c34ac95987ff58a1586dfa9f5c SHA-256: 6c0029bdc348bcaa157d00bb883b98ae788bf2ed4f802b6d339e899541bc6b6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple compromised upload links and a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

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://brod-plovdiv.com/images/68492257854.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b5dc4e4f57fe68565b167583a7ffbed/depapemakove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aapp29mb9g4mor4s2gos8rflu7/47370433741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91ec742aff76eca7913bf99c35c4235f/xomivegidozamuvijab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/763390314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dothi.info/images/files/xefosusafenoxuvaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3fcd450bc1---19643566911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigband-ulm.de/userfiles/files/56084118100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmatlak91u6q1lrsvdv9bdkc31/56201216379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/33088422411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a727895b6---kuvomopegobolepusosisuwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essiac.cz/UserFiles/file/23971910423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1693016275d0f56b4c7a53d2ee3baf96/fodalasonigugabisemutawum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/76142511004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38c14e0930---34411993326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac21e5a4c14---lalokaloworutofesagamuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd64ba059fb4c794688d86e2133b0ab8/nedibugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92ca275eb68573d5f7be115b21585292/99581542155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed6bd024ed9d204355b6de3bcaf8c02b/maberuwubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itssilvertime.com/clients/2/24/24efe347a73a8ce028152bf895bc11a7/File/bepaxasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3be6fb75af9661402bfdd2e914e4dd8/58017582488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dudikom.pl/userfiles/file/35745526669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87136d24e3---zewaxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c404cff73---wanekepiboderak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=writ+of+seizure+and+salePDF 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_off0000ee53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE53 10500 bytes
SHA-256: af9a1208eca011dcd0337155da52d2d5005adf46eccbd528fe17b0195d8951f5
font_01_sfnt_off00010669.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10669 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E7B 17196 bytes
SHA-256: 476204d7da413b1c895f7ea45bf7b3e5c9a8f6b3509b8014503196804dd4c3dd