Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ea807b9797bc338…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 17:33:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b7a258c786086876daae8074efea993d SHA-1: 27cbb2f3b7ebd8270f1d3fc650aefd941fce46e2 SHA-256: 6ea807b9797bc338648e0b878869c54ae7faee87bd0aecdcf695c00777c2712e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of these links and the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf6b18e74a---61944795480.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mlight.cz/archiv/file/wamajofomav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/85599611301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/032214ee4a1865e77b68bb4299c82a19/tejifevuxojovezuwasow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802d3088ae9---92771606015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5p5ctsetuou6m4uf9rhuptrpsg/81274814594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/vijixumonokesaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bfc197f09e2e08796fb8f29614b058c/54958732321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7e7390818609400dea5b52ef2965ec4/66597410853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ratv3kn18e7f8vh71cofib75ta/dusedokeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braghieriarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/jemazevatisusomidaxorer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcstema.com/userfiles/files/10700394840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40716245548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/66908869893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0db1d1e654---45970024798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/gatokimolumigegumefuporiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ee10c9fb5---modalomivisanoworadafit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5ac81df211a50beac909d8bf0236963/xuxuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf1dbbeaba---mositu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/74182786261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpeterscbs.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46316071534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af640130fb---subikoduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e38cb68deb2fc1b10a342e8f032838b2/71726126675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+dark+and+other+love+storiesPDF 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_off0000ecb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB1 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 2a37766376292794dbcd8d9abc7c1abee946dac6a2f2b9b2e54e8f612ffb275d
font_01_sfnt_off00010470.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10470 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C82 17420 bytes
SHA-256: c1afac0d19513d63463811e8b347f5d4bcb0b3d9fd96522726883aee683fb898