Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6a7a216ba2aa8a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 17:01:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b44705dca4be3d111232b96f0fd7bde3 SHA-1: baeb313344a8f205caeca9eabf42c1158afa0e80 SHA-256: a6a7a216ba2aa8a16fe767afae134633c534f2005d772333ffe3149a4a70e46c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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 https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cf7515e3afde1200c75992118e81e0d/96146767716.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160957f2a0c288---zipimusimefadugirako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuemeism.com/uploadfiles/files/25321410277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/41398284737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonlaval.com/userfiles/files/mukojebizumanujisubota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tsvto390k43og7nl2fa9vfqssc/1098133949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/45314625385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xarowavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gourmethousemacau.com/UploadFilesfile///3381822239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8fb910403---wegakojifilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/89632602824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b70aadf17809da7dda188374d61ef589/gepobunesukixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d07317731c---95594140809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tskrea.com/userfiles/file/62998154892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bbb7f102b---votodewegoxinona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks-puyuma.com/CKEdit/upload/files/komugawimerelamulikoxopez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vo7qkvi9h1s360frbuti2kvm2/33951453684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hchs1972.com/clients/2/2c/2cb73362227bcfbd3ed6ae01b5b3dc46/File/zuzox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988530c4110---8767179207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e86db09276---81307363917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvositudasbazis.eu/images/upload/file/64156405671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajeshjshahani.com/clients/d/de/defaee86e9f1fedea086b53a5072ac2c/File/duxori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/34292802762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb4a9463c1---wipenuwawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=sansui+9090db+user+manualPDF 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_off0000e786.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE786 10796 bytes
SHA-256: f54a74bb4c013fdb05d0cb4e7d075e00d07ffb378ffc2d1cace53b25efca9e1b
font_01_sfnt_off00010051.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10051 17888 bytes
SHA-256: 8f163d7d29a52b62d4f3b47ed3e05915644b3372401a13a155d24e1005005612
font_02_sfnt_off00012ee8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EE8 1860 bytes
SHA-256: 562d39cc93351683f3420870a5578826c1285db13c691c08f99be18f4980e560
font_03_sfnt_off0001379e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1379E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1