Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f08338de881c7c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-07-13 20:06:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: cedf57f38b6d14d162547c4425c90d88 SHA-1: 30b2fcd1e5e98f3d28d843cdfe73173cead39603 SHA-256: 6f08338de881c7c3fec9483e5f03a3d94553fc273f3a1045780c43f2b09cfe8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to what appear to be compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structure and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5067e6a734---witoxafawitagotu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/penoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084194127936---51659089879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb1835657de559cffbde953bcfb29d87/savenegefox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/fupabemega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19de6a011aae1b107b6170da16468c4b/tebapebopoxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewastexperts.com/userfiles/files/14350397414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608758811d3ae---52105947446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/72622983507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f0518bae43414c4ab2f14b193f48eaf/2920553469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labcoop-jsc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjra658toj1q7o7s6col0fmdd8/vonunulilubovatupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bc3a0a057---sotetatefisaxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e73c6867a3c6b611c854a9a8a535a604/pupukuferelegesujagipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7c0f71be7e---63852803027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/14254859993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/91314545535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfb357681adf2ac5be2e43fc47c04d87/tewutotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/98101548759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8174751d96f36add644c7117e03af30/87701696712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohingltd.com/userfiles/zijivevezeronikizizom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769cbf764b6---67403950021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/103f036779d569edc10ed1f143ed2d64/47499980908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ba0a53dd0---wewokapilizipewetowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacnsuaa.com/clients/4/49/49ab1acc6c62b5a39110d621a19f71c0/File/72196804759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/61384224269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608134031f4fe---2015153545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=eclipse+second+dawn+for+the+galaxy+rules+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_off0000ce26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE26 11284 bytes
SHA-256: 1b459e511325be6e9cfa3043a081832e29f3d0a1bd699ff5d43aea03351e0f0f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e87e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE87E 16628 bytes
SHA-256: c6e6647ba3e3c06f1a491de126c85db6665b9afdc6ebcbf899d55fffb7cd4220
font_02_sfnt_off000113e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1