Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b6056a3c8366ded…

MALICIOUS

PDF

180.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:29:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1034d1e02bd582c451265baaef2f3010 SHA-1: daf65620aa5d5f6bea7fe670d1d954f4459d4d22 SHA-256: 9b6056a3c8366dedca73d4facc5a69f2ba2faf8984d8d876b4424a237d6133e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm indicators further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9716

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://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14269b03281cdc0bb50c0acfef583586/gukimagefa.pdf
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072fe2671b2b---nulamuzupazifububujite.pdf
    • https://purefeeling8.com/data/file/38843231189.pdf
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe1092647f5d70d207018b646ecc2ed0/sigino.pdf
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021050210443694.pdf
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/2636674588.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085edc7e624b---bawomixiforurize.pdf
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/lobugabetadugawisibes.pdf
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/30150335116.pdf
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4bcdc2c56d---semuzoxufulemimeviwi.pdf
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/67782779559.pdf
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a8d6d56155eb6cd8a31be20f55fa064/duwobukoriroxabatuma.pdf
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/966ff51b9c4dcdc7bcf2ce164ed83208/ponusafesitona.pdf
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64a1cee329---15526433568.pdf
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8af430b744---sepif.pdf
    • https://alajuusa.ee/media/contents/file/xiwokamilifoxowuxaxur.pdf
    • https://koratspring.com/upload/file/jumatabimobetamej.pdf
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/zotelezuwusavibumubago.pdf
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dn6n3n1v77bemf135lanbg9htb/15294743483.pdf
    • https://copab.tn/216mag.svn/uploads/files/wovera.pdf
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/30969576227.pdf
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28efc4977c8ba013f6059303af8f7ca7/88184141919.pdf
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c67e40fc2158faa5bdc725ef47e71e9b/foromevelarubamulos.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=different+types+of+jelly
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000243c1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x243C1 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00025bd3.bin
dc360175b4e5800a6bb5cc57b94178960ed14b2614168b6c7aae3c8d6b5dce4e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25BD3 22024 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000292ef.bin
bb20a449173098bef4ef83b644b595b4ec46ed744dc73df7ed40696985f03e68
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x292EF 16992 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0002abe7.bin
7502136b2370f063bcee56f1826cc84dc192b94edd941b2f474757de9ea0a62e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2ABE7 10432 bytes