Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6f960a1f6206662…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:23:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a5115948e67783b95cd5ba05d2a02f50 SHA-1: 07f2e19b1df714966ee67cf627c04a1e8d83c78e SHA-256: a6f960a1f62066628b1e0738146a3287ccee09a111cbfc51fc36916756b6b2f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

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 http://mariopresto.pl/userfiles/file/67995118388.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5fa06906b---52070790343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee43e5510f---renogovikosuwawolub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfaaa.com/UploadFile/file/20210807151331710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df698851eac---xaluxizunadufuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/magetiratasipufuvemoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rymwid-training.com/userfiles/file/66772928071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b11kh5l.com/ckupload/files/gokapeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946d1f796bb---nuxijafop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3da14d438a0e947b12c505b623cff991/20212329022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbcefd92d4---votenadobimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c300e8aa0---42136727907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivetc.vn/uploads/files/68927866016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70f2967884d53fb585eae2bc2f363f54/budoxazifavoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/gobifujirasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttworld.hu/uploads/content_files/files/lasita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb1a3eca5e2---74250537590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6285022ed0d47c1e05e05bc0e7bd0f5c/simafofowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rfmkqft3br77piss229fl98vvv/71686503819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j7qoeci94ji9ap2uublu6mc2nj/26646301276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/tebawajasuxarir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8901993803---63684738422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majorpropertygroup.com/userfiles/files/bazatifuzutililob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b805ceb5f2d---67632843404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082057d42b39---zawutebubarinalusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=statistics+for+management+and+economics+11th+edition+keller+solutions+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000efa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA8 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 6ea1e570a746aab775b3bc0c85a3065cb89452d43fda72e162384e55cf164185
font_01_sfnt_off000109a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A3 20816 bytes
SHA-256: ab42b68ba6c8331d7aef6e02ef734bc52bc777f214f354764b836ffb7c5f6469
font_02_sfnt_off0001400c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1400C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1