Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fbdea6b4746a88b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-08-02 16:47:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b440f25eac4ccbf2f0499d48cc6b0ba5 SHA-1: 05c5d025c0e1108aa43285879b8abf58a44655a9 SHA-256: 6fbdea6b4746a88ba1b6ecf5e1fb5752e32d4c1871f04d1b144cedab1f25d349
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9tt1k618svbj2154t28pr9g022/relagib.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/882ee7ccb23e994c08e1cad3d16ae6fe/gadavanavobonopobusabobet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/5746473566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/fadeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06b0bcd513---8567746899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/dozatawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ceee0668e5a13bbbc508b53453807d4/41224834873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3fcb4e100---31832715332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5cba0f63f517c01e3f7a24e8e6b6779/63206991132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/4731781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec839cfc6d362c7043d62a978a38745b/25342631069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pagyesa.org/userfiles/file/20210721192541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/furin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhanh.com/files/kekosatafufejolakoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711c4613a13---82590638718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=guia+de+estudio+unam+licenciatura+pdf+2019PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d13a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD13A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e951.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE951 11384 bytes
SHA-256: fe93f39f6e48b3b8d83cc7a16dcecb434e83c4c03f4673eea9ce46fda0141a0a
font_02_sfnt_off00010429.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10429 17868 bytes
SHA-256: 1e3e949e8bd36a21000be0eba4295cbb0ec1b5dd8bc9c70bb5c813a04a98d735
font_03_sfnt_off00013168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13168 17020 bytes
SHA-256: c8abeafc7b9cbc6c41bca611e572d5dbe592152c271446898801a0a850e80fa5