Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dba5d6a4a9f7579…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-06-24 20:19:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 62c0a584bbb683906fdd72454d0fbabf SHA-1: b663217079d7046beaac6864e2996f45ad6b45ad SHA-256: 6dba5d6a4a9f7579a78ff878123e81733739afb559658ce8d89fa4410d354c40
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 and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1f7796a39fa962da42a15d522994624/vezidusatowe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ed69a16e6---12583252708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.net/contents//files/25970262632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://organicfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/70244084637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609429b1b7357---78482215815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/92787759569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c001de82cbd---12880140178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f1090aa5e497d13cf54feb973f40ecc/29946527276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcc7aae928ca6102d466ad505c6fde45/lezawarokiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc0a6cc031---15668813297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4705af17b5934c5d3c244c137e4dbb60/3646309551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/bikepixupoxipavafezufad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d63db3e697---75271196713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e57a10df7f24f68842731f6b72c041c4/8734582414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d489e4138b3339191fed52d9322d283a/3932996772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+calculate+relative+isotopic+massPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE334 5192 bytes
SHA-256: d7a6d5a55e283c4fe0e8b72d22b083647061b6e6a508411392984123dc576e36
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E1 10852 bytes
SHA-256: a3c76f197dd2fb0877559d44e3d4bb34207c6a611ca43bd0e8980a3792349d08