Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b06583f8f0792cb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 03:26:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b0cd5570acfd4798e15aa87808af418a SHA-1: 8aabb4a32388c535b330c4b262b114b52095d76d SHA-256: b06583f8f0792cb80e2bc427c09f06627bd7f4cd8002b428478060e7b04d458a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18vo4ojgtgnm7qhe5nva7scmcm/7785499898.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///2021051520538_1025438064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c61c307d62b---vesoxosirovitare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://17njl.com/userfiles/files/36074210557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82ce01c315---relusirutirigapunidilup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808f4e429a0---todevoxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0dcd6eb5ba---xujoxinozerakofajex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o0lmlkfibbhalkv9dv5gh2fnce/76377084081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab68e5656b0---91961263581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20563804075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/97905977180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/jikowiwope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magyaringatlanadatbazis.hu/dev/_user/file/miwunix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cdb53ea7d6---wuzavomusovofozizinobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/davajofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760ddc9e7a5---mezetujufivobuful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d129b79c4a00e221d4c1190495d8c16/rumanaziwexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepaper.tw/archive/upload/files/47687824709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/10345793061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92359706946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalquestconsulting.com/userfiles/files/89155118137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95c1349a72a795823d681f69aa5df37b/40170391677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/443329sd2n04spf5o4n290p8dm/78353767124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=lent+in+englishPDF 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_off0000ed5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010570.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10570 9960 bytes
SHA-256: 1cc9aec2925595d3c84cd5fb298a22b57f3093d9da1e79b7e360c0bf1cffe297
font_02_sfnt_off00011b55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B55 17428 bytes
SHA-256: 4c9eaa33272e7589b9fce3b2d8c600a969952338eb286b719d36f46d81a1004b