Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6a366eb36e3c224…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:04:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e9c9fb932df375d4eb7466288e47618d SHA-1: b4db656ddc8bb3a56d2242778ead373929033f65 SHA-256: a6a366eb36e3c2246d9fca1ae9d3e73ca8587b53d4a200b76cd9389d806b13e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other potentially malicious domains. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest this document is designed to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093680819cac---72972059010.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://twinslock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39095909566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d6463bbcdc0f2340bf056270c42ec02/wixuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97616202891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mamufagilugoremomili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duralinealu.com/upload/files/tedixurimewozila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc02cbe8bac---9663273535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b76eb403e37---87243827696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/54559493344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorisemitchell.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kikuruve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edda93e315d---70339787483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e6d222a1c---16351971230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0b7ujdgempppo5et6em40v1ls/45898849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73056926296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbezcba9a5aggb3j.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muturopozopujuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zerling.eu/nico/images/files/logedodojokabunebufum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/lineraguranepop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1badcd85c31b86917939a98fca1a1aa9/niluwubekoratajapekazafos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ec703ec62---3807225188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d62688e436018dc1b071249e8a9a7c67/xilebesoputurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinniescustoms.com/userfiles/files/vapumodanudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lo0gvdqrqdocrk363tog03ri0/10074326729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08opssco0tegon527efahmqqr6/nobobukedurufeniwisejomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42820699271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekopaczka.pl/imgbrama/files/zajewowakane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=nomenklatur+kabel+pdfPDF 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_off0000c479.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC479 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 8c9ec2f277a5a793c480375ce4f6f7b1c6a369dd582fbcf0985ca3fd1cf16ab4
font_01_sfnt_off0000dccb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCCB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4DD 17968 bytes
SHA-256: b6617b96158a9b81bb1793e5e0b0dd173de0965f1a1d746c9fbb6d51f32bc3a4