Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f34baa6a7a5329b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2021-06-21 06:04:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 436240afd1e2df8c6a365150fdb87c7d SHA-1: e06006fd4310c1f1429a39ec543110096099ec86 SHA-256: 6f34baa6a7a5329b5f6fcd7d9c41abb40f35a1e794c46b198d24e6034b00ff88
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution lure. It contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host or redirect to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports this, indicating a likely attempt to trick the user into downloading a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly corroborates the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=pdf+to+cdr+convert PDF link annotation
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7dad18024---fobaporofijipokijufep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c44436f6f31699bccdc883e8af79a82d/48729499243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/626a0e38f493c31cc8a20ccda077735e/guluxafatodiwixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966311c0072---gevadofabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ad966dda706ba59a821715ae6c95b52/ribad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6be389801b34c3a760e75c4c94cf37ba/81832121943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d75a751925390646e57ae9cbb13ed7cc/ledaririnudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afcf55999b3---wefagedawiper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940c02f0f4d---wifiwotek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc3ecb1d5337ae4df2a4bc29fd6f658b/58076792240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/at00choefr89lirrb9n3msrvo8/75364108659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46242914170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783042993c4---74353327042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d7f5f3771---morobol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b881d026f45333150b317d5c178e9045/manebutujem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/53975261931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE07 4656 bytes
SHA-256: 9643f943e385e67c950f2acb7911ad59d7d0d1836a4ddd78c2ab3a6d49ec7d6e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDF8 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 84d59aa99fb56e30e608c35bc5b1119ba21f6b6afdadbd926440983beb97ea49