Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ed06dfa82d822f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 17:35:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 969af6aee92a16557157a44c49c0ed34 SHA-1: bdfa1878f71ef3afab1e1bff94b9d96bda1f8aae SHA-256: 6ed06dfa82d822f9f266381d17103852e211143bfcbd4c75770e7e93890075aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160899b1a648e9---ziwatonopiwixojonaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df6bcdf36f---suzumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/zerogawurulasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa1edddc06---detelafozazepab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lube-stc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5399400101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///riwajerewuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bff1fd030a---42668920369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37527fc58c2f940175d4f9390a33307b/setazejixonisukulup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/93706213121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce3faaaa3c43c769d20678218d5958c7/44266423312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7f291a1b5---34503243200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/70191615283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98968244424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theeultimatenetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74917691763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bd7386c388cec0605e8f9be3530a48d/lerumamegunuzifiwapos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609492b45ed2c---95336815331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etenindex.nl/images/uploads/22312044884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dee1c572bb---jidolilera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generale-bureautique.fr/gdb/files/file/32556947689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b083fc52ea1---25531541890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609015b64d6b7---lomigewifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelbo.com/uploads/admins/u0/files/20210530165510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/rigitumewabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7aadfa29a45b11ad7e892e8e81fe014/59600958303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/jawanozukewanazabavusejat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=16pf+personality+questionnaire+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_off0000f5eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5EB 18052 bytes
SHA-256: 9e0e5498633e2ff215a7734a9d16cdd0d3de54698d4d2435ee41b8f0b2168d62
font_01_sfnt_off000123cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123CD 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 60f7f95ddd34e2d8b13b36165f408c6d1e613d8fde9e209a12059e2434ca39e5
font_02_sfnt_off00013d41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D41 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1