Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6bdef8190bc1b4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.7 KB Created: 2021-07-20 08:29:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5f4a9cf8774eb7d6880e83209d8293e3 SHA-1: beb9dedc7d836afc1cb2c8fecf8c16bc4206ecb1 SHA-256: a6bdef8190bc1b4a5812c3f4e9ef9e852259e8ddbd944eafab32a3514698d5b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. This structure is characteristic of phishing or malware distribution campaigns, aiming to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://jgbt.us/pds/userfiles/files/wuramutomakagamifujodaku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99ebe53933---11212257125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac900e5e039---fivojuvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f31b41a4f24797b60d482994535dc9e/biroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/50087622005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db38c0ab1a---56672228836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agenbenangbandung.net/file/mezagenowutusokoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f372d183e3---57321761915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba23a95d653---70685527480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/dirunitesujiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maternites-catholiques.org/ressource/site-image/files/xonago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e43fb060a5a---45792880378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://au-zlato.sk/upload/files/68420313531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26b6cbfa816015e877f819a6ecdfc3cf/wugujuzopikiletadatura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ef6442394a8a1e7bcac2b2bd0d9a6b4/wepador.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d2b7f7084322e8ecda689a6f1f0ca2d/81767007357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/59441517999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/86780204334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0b3f890ccfdee475bceb3c03280a0bd/waratolilidujawer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ppk-kp3k.kkp.go.id/ver2/extra/ckfinder/core/connector/php/media/ckfinder/files/dokemuledutazilelej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tr19f38qe96gai33hvpvb9a3u7/gidim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accu-chek-event.com/ckupload/files/luxoredelepawepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6b4e36941---67359483006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bac54795d6a---kuxivebided.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55a756fbda6ccb6b0eb0aed236e57b4f/tiwukojekuzidowusevasupon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=taylor+polynomial+proofPDF 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_off00012165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12165 21248 bytes
SHA-256: 1a2ca136e10ec4430495ecbfbd3b750ab6ab68f5ea2cee924a0ad0829b91776d
font_01_sfnt_off00015aa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AA4 10196 bytes
SHA-256: d9c0ccae7553200b2d68c2668f5f5a20e93951a2d1bd656426d5369c77d0eb47
font_02_sfnt_off00017164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17164 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1