Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e84c6153fecbec6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 11:50:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 8abaa5d2f3275f9b1f2b7c045a8e16bc SHA-1: ae9c2dc0570ed4e3727424c3bf9d748c75930adc SHA-256: 6e84c6153fecbec61555ec1d17fbe6a83ede8a1303cf7b74622e50c587337c8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classification strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of link farms on disposable or compromised hosting further supports a phishing or redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ol8939o3fanttbvtj4gq91psd7/4582477094.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1e4f37d94c56199529cf9e8dbe22aa3/fumibuxijimuxalewunepop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sewakendragroup.com/userfiles/file/65870618131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed4ba9d2cb---25532471293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client//imagesfile/zovukepepegipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whewfamily.com/clients/12004/File/11864493773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c160d0363d4---56837514249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarissoft.com/img/userfiles/files/kepixejizajosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iml5h0inip4q9ffm4e7ijcfh7a/bodif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uft5j5k36nc5fplj0l9dp46etk/wajujigeweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5664e50efc280f2517a332f126286b81/ratumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7dbe0ef1b---petuvalenovalamunogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/weluxiluvonivanise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6c7d794f8---danumapopisokas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/65554245796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d43c50c1a---takivedupofuvuxerevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075075a54e35---numefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushrutproctology.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40167063017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d34b24e7c0---40238824592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ih8qkct804qj61r0m49v9r0lt3/91986495338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.knickmeier.net/images/pageimg/file/megikunaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/nenokarudujuwosawopifoxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8srd9h2j9941orvv46767l6897/93800476247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6bcc921a6f---sitilakabugenezut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b589687a90e17e5ae05ed69dd6226a58/ruvopokunolame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=gold+rush+pricesPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/39449470752.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_off000105bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105BC 17604 bytes
SHA-256: b842ef213f6c095c32c882156c6af94841b9674ba5ea60198d68df5688584545
font_01_sfnt_off000133ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133CA 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 338120b6ba766a1275e05d1ef69acb29faeaa77e74397551f6bae1115cc6190f
font_02_sfnt_off00014b66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1