Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f190e7f6dea3bcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:41:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e525613ca6f8a2bcef6758d7ecfc8189 SHA-1: 4c043d7556d2f157a3cbd5d3c437cc1043494712 SHA-256: 6f190e7f6dea3bcce9f968ae48918e6561628e3457cc301aa0a5d833cff8d5d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple compromised hosts and link farms points towards a phishing or spam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210505124502.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/mudokoxodofaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8m7b91sc16kej2p1fjncmb1mf/nabatijusalorabafiseve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae31f4b712a---19611445885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080259c06e3e---1347898900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clipsttm.com/userfiles/file///selutidirejizipanixovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/71155788500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/gataboxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a942fb6b42---74204660462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50b6572f3f2e32ec50382c57ec454377/dozoxekapaxelupegir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaccugiare24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/6224562824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beliangka.com/contents//files/muteforirobobili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i17i50iq1da3imvmj24349sn9i/51797773617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c495161e0f7---satofopowututu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verypool.cn/images/upload/File/67142153400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cafdb8c4c64---28105949967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5ccuopv8ieda3sjtitl7s7mf2/nulogetenerenaxezunesejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ec57cedf6---57920235473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78e256c33e0049f5d7f4a6abe7fbf4ad/jimedit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/kokusuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoetryworld.com/clients/53741/File/83158162314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uus6r8fdl5aopggotm2r2g1mb7/38469488301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8b1f5bbc32dc11c2f2a347eb4b60c30/17777272131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/ruxetutudisimidivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ti2lao6r7j3s5goodsic95t3iv/23006755222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=writing+with+style+apa+style+made+easy+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_off0000f1df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1DF 11016 bytes
SHA-256: b8e6b6334ae23779326072f2c04dfbf69c7f427edba10f3de783736f0ca368c3
font_01_sfnt_off00010b14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B14 16584 bytes
SHA-256: 42cb92715c01db834c8ea3fec5482a7c6493ee4324b961a3d502da7adf9e16f6
font_02_sfnt_off00013638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13638 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1