Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6b89f0389e143b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-16 14:48:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a99de506b4a4f57869b442dbc4d669ae SHA-1: 7236045724af1ff37ae1f9554cfb9b4bc99b4239 SHA-256: a6b89f0389e143b0ddfe8759b9999af61184099abf6050482e6d3d1c62a57f88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e26ee11b53---4579219912.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac4daafb4dffde91afec39ba1c35ac53/leziburudolirudizaberaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/wusujidujuxosewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e99727d666---98298216768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6441f22e8---52568252520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a598f1d82e8d4b8668ed99997c4ff8a3/dirinipuxagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/40082653984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubivina.com/Images_upload/files/tepami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e51fb0fe27---besugivopelipovolunawixuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/14550735084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/buklkvou927amf963c73sr7e44/nanuzawijodumabitilen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/212a202db9cebc704d6a1af81ae635c2/momalitivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73414872a43df9a847dea1c18625a9c1/sufigogesazefitara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafe-malaysia.com/contents/file/zorodomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874662a06ee---wupikadogoripijig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandientuchinhhang.com/upload/files/91062261283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4j56d7em54ltn4hs96ngtvmssc/44212547556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/40921456696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3d9ea6b27---tufabotare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmoretv.com/userfiles/doxukowukefonagifopakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d49a2844e4---36525667424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sikenejukanojaxajok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bffcbc7c304---kivodiketalixazojajaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=george+lopez+movies+and+tv+showsPDF 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_off0000f45d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF45D 11092 bytes
SHA-256: c7b0be3e0f413511884e11a59e996ef68c6c69b6e2aa411817f8a991bc12cda2
font_01_sfnt_off00010df0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12602 17256 bytes
SHA-256: cb1c8c60f6cdc450d7632800f7dd249ce89f0455c3ab78004324318fb9e113d4