Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f08152e35aa94c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 19:25:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 39b3b874fbfa7ace66204d18e3b21c88 SHA-1: 2a4392dc339483a56cf6e161568423dd8ad678eb SHA-256: 6f08152e35aa94c3086d6e13d927d04ac58442971c707572f8ea5712721324fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to lure users to external resources for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=steam+game+manuals PDF link annotation
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d21a4520d5---sitijubosuzepola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df666f1470c824d0fb4b4cdd72edbf99/34918014765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073edeb5a406---62033111886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundainhapkhau.net/upload/files/82102622433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45983b5e6ad93d4fa7977ea9ddc14498/16578253661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbecc4a825ded228ecbfa9deaf4885cd/8107987299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607446be7c2f3---doxitiluziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cae39d52cb---neturapaxonaxatekejugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5f056f86d---88005767200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoctienganh123.net/upload/files/dawumutekef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nuyew.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30ad682c5bc3628b7692b6e5ec0dbfca/fifugifixoraxuwozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19fa3c5a0b3bf00be6dd58937df4ccaa/25962355896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.knickmeier.net/images/pageimg/file/zodinewap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7095448ee2---rovilatawolabekefejale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donauwell.at/userfiles/file/82608193784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srjtcv76g447f6kepu5dhhk5v2/49594370333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23633638461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06d18dfaac---4162809438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/xuvenowutosuwager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a83e8738e---97433251726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e1ab99ee9---risudazisaxevopemazega.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_off0000e6c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6C4 16588 bytes
SHA-256: c0cf84337bba08de2c8ab370b2bbf72e8078a7efc37bb59a913dbbf94a91912e
font_01_sfnt_off000111dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F3 10316 bytes
SHA-256: c9a844fd9786a0032fc8e5d0fcf00e2b4412886f1dca784d30e0637d657f00c4