Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6b0947256bc746f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-15 10:46:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4fb96eff9aafda7fd3462be52ac02042 SHA-1: 5e191c44c96d82f1cdb5d7c0a53164f794c428ed SHA-256: a6b0947256bc746faa1f17829364798b861b2668149025a25f628fb7b902506d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/jelukudedasidudav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd54804dcfceeb80aa5128448e0173c4/51979888127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096698313182---vapixuzugazotetepij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmeds.us/userfiles/file/96689211179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b4fd0ef7447700f98deaf1209a071f1/xagafineziwusomom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087bab021734---giwopedepimazubelam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/wesenije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37g1df813atk1kv2eisaqmso7f/36984247142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b500268cc1---19720109320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushrutproctology.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39831604637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/forovivivetiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/57252203696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermaktif.com/imgup/file/lasunuboxagotifutuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987b2c5760f---25849206903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hn0vm8nsp3n5ie95qj073bt6gv/boxanavexivoguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vevugelaxamatidev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df7748e2a10c29392f198bacfc7c2303/13601152073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd2f381033---jixuxezajapinijax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb7a4734e0---29138576504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/8629055504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607517c413e97---87413042797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidichike.com/upload/files/57482150712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c3c9b188c92f16ae0d43544327eaf1d/komawenemodanujasavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioghittigargnano.com/userfiles/files/71577122918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caydinhlang.net/userfiles/image/file/fipuxinimula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=tractor+spare+parts+online+shoppingPDF 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_off0000f54c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF54C 10616 bytes
SHA-256: ae3728f16d6b430173c7fe87eefba26a945c2168d91e1e2357a87e6613ae29cd
font_01_sfnt_off00010d82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D82 17144 bytes
SHA-256: e9acc40134484ee0becef992250b713a392176abad427da311d07987c92be766
font_02_sfnt_off00013a6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1