Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ff386ab911fb83b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:13:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f898ca4006c9b2c6d1eeca68e8906524 SHA-1: 2812cd9cf19100cc838f029cd57e444bf7f3a634 SHA-256: 6ff386ab911fb83bafbf1020cc9d19214b253596b5411a686949db211e52c422
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish users or redirect them to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis confirm a link farm designed for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bisegalivusudasu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://meijialx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jatorosowow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f67ad815ffec2c14c4103fead3fd0dc/52582907965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startent.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/muxiwamikonikeveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1f72a9cddbff1364ce82a4bd2e9bc5e/53689418913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc76231829f---89324688347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/zarubogevedowewigizepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62c3cee0b1---13125610054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16289977494615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611649e408f9b---lofuxusiwinaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/222f648ee45982f99ff32ec6aeaf6661/pozoliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/buguseruwariz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szsahsh.com/uploads/files/77775608875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f33ac362e---mogerizajoreweli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f4a25a823a8cb2a44305841a4bc7bd9/jivizusokonige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/wawimonagetilasotofivire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48d3f9b205a7155897773e5847fec291/69716378794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e132bc9192b---xivopetezubedoruwelada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/65625856571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3sbdnj1g58iojo4r3f350ctjig/xepapaxusuzapamali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopetrilli.it/userfiles/files/10170928644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nokopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=french+numbers+activities+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000d505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD505 10908 bytes
SHA-256: d80b641f11a4e89ce5b08eedbe801d4f0f18c77459dbf7692abc85108cba5d4b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE22 19364 bytes
SHA-256: f669647aac236ed092afd4453c0344e4a74790e9c42b92ca9838afe2d1e7a6b1
font_02_sfnt_off000120d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1