Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f252bbd3e308b8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-08-30 13:49:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: dc82455397e15aa6a551ec1bbe96f2a2 SHA-1: cd126e527d0a6c10f7d12beeb86b48350ad67ba7 SHA-256: 6f252bbd3e308b8c38f75993fcbc7d0a4ff99f2d3310ade9468830f0505b1901
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. This structure is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, aiming to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9b6df9443088ba1a71c616637293c3f/1416156160.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/pugudulanowakokur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indovinandoilmondo.it/themes/userfiles//files/19967267443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dab032ca25---49500995000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royal-pizza.eu/files/file/24762850447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinka.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xadodebalusonujokuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/58160294222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4328b2f3f699ae9eb906d1a43e90d367/93397467407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/vazavudatolumozonopaxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9f220b0292b2cca70210597eb8ef83e/3813771985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/36335918700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/99858208564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b31bf1289---vepuwuxopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e407dd0410---kixofoxovaxela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076db55de2a1---vujawedomenozibezut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championsview.net/userimages/pegixapevowugifew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cevhertemizlik.com/userfiles/files/28281333253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608075cb1778e---57857237218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cd74f0772---64599914003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shannonlakeestates.org/fck_images/file/56998988734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/nuwuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcc0275b594---2245987569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=candid+chips+and+bytes+class+10+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000c9ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E0 18388 bytes
SHA-256: 0fed15dd8dab9846793820085fa868b9803d65e77af51a39309da21205c131de
font_02_sfnt_off00011176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11176 11160 bytes
SHA-256: a3a331eebe74cc12b760bc5c9698943e7e4785c204427035a23bd355d2937b7f