Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 806ba0f18013b7f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-07-08 01:15:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b27eb5165503a40b4c32433bf5b80f3b SHA-1: c74fbf79b6fe66c407b442618ce52a846825187a SHA-256: 806ba0f18013b7f4c2820ba1ed3c7682006b0c81c1ca31be303d603995e05d68
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of PDF exploits often involves embedded JavaScript for malicious actions, hence T1059.007 is included.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vqbq56as942kj7bqonod3i84k1/95099100302.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/88161370060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagepoorter.be/files/files/zixadogatodibojuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c4a4d6c61---kikagesovuretezoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4277a19b5---51828409401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df25b3b508---56451413742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d592581bccef92e98d39ba28cbdc9f9/17277484994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e32eee0994e8fafddb88af48dd7cffda/jirakegodipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c5234a737---torediwupoxoxalijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b7124d768---90894462183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b20a8fa0c---kopenipilagutesajimunani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89a810cacf---luguludewabaluxutovinuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be12491b1fc---panimuneranika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-7///202171517484998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.deuba.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjl9cislel93nm40novu5dbk6l/jiposogolutevujutolezug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/rufikureregi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b332e94e31---87153830036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079aa35724fa---zifazarasazajuwajutoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/21841259813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a036ae41b357f9c0611a6fd2a39e1e66/warafotobijevokopim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089302a2907d---zesajaxigozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eccbaca589a55a0db41afc090db4ade3/83925136413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5h6b2kbuppfut6nf9v1jcctv7/51788618178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicadit.ro/UserFiles/file/91235381506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/43555716674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/belogasos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=the+most+mysterious+bookPDF 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_off00011220.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11220 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012a32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A32 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 6054e2b6692705fbebb9ca26230e159193a38b17a70c2b5c9ba1b4cef38aa31e
font_02_sfnt_off000158b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158B5 10468 bytes
SHA-256: f42d4ec48a1f79560b3cad3c831fff4cee44d35a877c684a03cf622aade63f08