Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d509a188a5c191e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 08:52:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 01386e999d71f8ab7225a7025ae189a6 SHA-1: b871e7c148ca48b793f3f22fa5b889cae88d7f4d SHA-256: 6d509a188a5c191e38526f34b492ece02ef91777956d66ce82bb53b66b07b5b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters in some URLs further support the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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 http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf37d23ea9---fexaduwejafikalawafevaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/gilejafofezilax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c479a1982c0---84858470269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/gupefurusuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855a4f5c7fe---29814938843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa96e22668012338df68cc13596a1964/gisozutagabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdcb965f465---wikilalekumisujemalijini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cd44e5da3f572a892d1cbefa4b28b87/jelonidamubojanexoxudin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valsadindustries.com/userfiles/file/bobuwuvexuzulivolozamibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/46598391800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/nodajikovodafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85708de31af03c22403897a29d7fd649/78161693372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/282038f3320d4d23b5287cfca44edfb4/gegomibubumufolelixelar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20au3psjij24kqdq2aenvaqfv7/12712759756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oa8pjgs0jftbseiorcgg8midq0/98951076276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kildevangen.dk/files/77266755138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7sn68v1i4msqkc34ka3nsrcui0/gezebamudugekoresuzalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iehyun.com/editorupload/file/48444429302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a06ec1593---87406936299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/dafexureta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740f09319e0---livimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b403670d9---zibazajameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c3585dc9b---97738689338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=he+gets+upPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000d4cb.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xD4CB 26332 bytes
SHA-256: 59207c69116f3b3ddd00f5d159328289276a29cff14451533c7890e6580c86fb
font_01_sfnt_off0001045d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1045D 9892 bytes
SHA-256: 12111f46dc9a8365a6ed8a0f7ccb0fc4dd2fd4613de78ee1d1e25b3963111bdd
font_02_sfnt_off00011a42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A42 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 1cd7e2bbb977f9b4fcad57280d38e08a390bd0863fdc7c60ad933246fed7987c
font_03_sfnt_off000146bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1