Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ea7454c890f19fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:50:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 40d9852cf7517574190e0535d3ccf4c9 SHA-1: 353ee19d4d283dc2866398eb5c0d36a3b999e6af SHA-256: 6ea7454c890f19fd44ca318ff3a2d9d3ee449e33200eda97e901b3f004e994b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues about its purpose beyond what is inferred from the heuristics and URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b934b9e5b5c---8977443711.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/pelamujefukedisilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasuthienphuc.com/Images_upload/files/98786272692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a9631683bf---borajosotijikek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diencongnghiepvohoang.com/uploads/files/66764042459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/sofojanokodamiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866dc9b3d4e---62839177429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/75760125757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202105291846385681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160931ce82d8e5---tofukerujebozarapute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/zadebus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ux-school.ru/files/files/xitinufosekubadupabasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakem.org/userfiles/files/mizutepubunixomobisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ec5a43e02---doxenisideluluxitalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nndaf94n3vupikrl05ib9nsup0/genitujogagobowoxodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c713c7017341e5ec4881c90a45ddd15/97977256821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/79386118290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hizlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/51794606342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsdarvin.com/files/46949786824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a820ee1d366---savorejanajibokumopefolup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813907c56f3---wofis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conrays.ru/f/data/vakoninevebapotemuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenfountains.com/uplds/file/99993727871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gucaoyun.com/uploads/file/142138167732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+premiere+elements+14+manual+pdfPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE121 19780 bytes
SHA-256: 5709e30b908bcf3eb3ae3d763d8b0eb65c5bbab54c52a337191112f6f76e0e50
font_01_sfnt_off0001147b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1147B 11012 bytes
SHA-256: eef78ef7e8519ebba9912ac41609860ec308a6934d082726c245d84fda2eccd1
font_02_sfnt_off00012de6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1