Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d86e3715ec5a9f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-08-05 06:56:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5a19514cca073dd87289c4dadad87cbc SHA-1: 9d1f9158c0cae0ab888b436901f0e27269034109 SHA-256: 6d86e3715ec5a9f5dec195d7b5ff56ea495dfc8b38daea6498bf26f438068539
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous external URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or are hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lead the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=full+body+exercises+weight+loss PDF link annotation
    • http://twothirdsmajority.us/clients/38522/File/kuselutigarigabekez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210730_D63FBE8FDF3AE7F7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasroglobal.com/userfiles/file/34182623951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomuraca.eu/userfiles/files/gunadajulibilenazibafefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sekowudidirefapemozumer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb6ede1e3d---juvasajudopop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/pekevatagebilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86ad1ab2a42c843731ef9c879358876c/84274017978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d1c1720aea9d1fe79e7e9417e844422/medobopuxefitefeninarud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9d9187e8d970e3c40974d924ca56243/fawar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08a8f719a25a7bbe6a499386f10e73ad/43271149919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookmyweddingup.net/clients/73542/File/55424505517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/setimegulepusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioterapiazabiegi.pl/obrazy/file/sisogabason.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcc9dbb88a3eb0c7def3ec267992e9e1/64472400136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff17b3c97fb76b2040e5d823e9298d02/24427223604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dineflon.com//files/64792690512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/kefibomusetopeligi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082414ab6e48---61754997584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83801452484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imreelectric.sk/uploads/file/bagivejinizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e1834c33d---94185287795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbd98d2c95---3757421339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2b9951a7886debad8d22bc9ec819abe/20520116333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2f9e1b3eb---fuparugib.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://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_off0000efa9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA9 16268 bytes
SHA-256: 13d89b1fd630e8a3cdf9116f0afde7e0801de3fe7b2d8ab9c35d538594bf772d
font_01_sfnt_off000119be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000131d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131D5 10900 bytes
SHA-256: e8c7cf97a255c3c24df83fd0a8eacf9e1d28705b1c127ccce844dbe48892a90c