Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6db7ece30842cecd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:34:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b14d30c997330a8b43f54b0fd7706d6d SHA-1: 561f065905178d09802893252810f03a8b2e9df5 SHA-256: 6db7ece30842cecd5ce79d37d3325bcf51c8ad414a1a67c6b38d2a383cf3f714
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external, potentially malicious, URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://4bx.pl/public/file/16678445970.pdf
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hsebhutikjmuovfjdv2ak1fbe4/68478786237.pdf
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/dazar.pdf
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/fedodejinivejowuzemata.pdf
    • https://codecs.roimages/file/87996201080.pdf
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7f28af185f76f86e4c96cc5ab94ac6b/dojuvepikaruxofu.pdf
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/89600307711.pdf
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926b7c25ed9---kelomapulonifuluso.pdf
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/tixegimiwozub.pdf
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d1d5f0742---90381879855.pdf
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1dedae958---86237838379.pdf
    • http://csc-028.com/userfiles/file/20210622192204_luuzj7.pdf
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a440d06c0ba---xezidozogut.pdf
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada965c8c9b---68721328840.pdf
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53f6172ab4a4e8c1a9fb3df46075280f/bajadoduluvuli.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9df9e4ba7---6323701274.pdf
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79d75a9c0bd9c3382d2388a4efe85d8f/75793902503.pdf
    • http://x04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/xopoxegisafekodimokar.pdf
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1p3fpvbk4v3c3h99c6lnepnj6/xujosudetixogekebaga.pdf
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087573e350f9---64553424634.pdf
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/mixusafedubixagenotoruxa.pdf
    • http://tehnicgaz.eu/files/file/nesiramusolinusabupan.pdf
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/mopebugu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=oncotic+pressure+and+edema
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfd7.bin
205a0dab2d13779d342ce72bb8fd1330f1fd0eda7d096edcd4696a15bb79958d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFD7 16092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001096a.bin
42bc2405b55f70b40ffcfacfc8a87e82708b65fe7d139cf83907f75c33a7689e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1096A 10756 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012234.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12234 16792 bytes