Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6188acb981e353b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-06-19 14:03:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f6b6dedb9cb1084e0040978aba336697 SHA-1: 2960251ed0e66ae2db9f657214e967fa5b0a2531 SHA-256: b6188acb981e353bb74b7fbf8f7aaa75e9d762e24d2e0ca3ff77c144d1b6fff3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to exploit user trust for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fa73a884a7c59f991c5945250d8dd76/vosupupidibexetus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826d1172d5d---dusasogog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db5cfeb741---lizugujubirefun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/82137534980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wannawwannie.pl/userfiles/file/nurugokegopapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49d52d05067157e2755e08e8b562cc2c/mesirakosoputenagex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/063fa054773ed9338ead6b52c05dc33c/67015104960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/96549592174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-6-5/20210605043042489331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924b6eb0541---kowunuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bea8935a96---lutezudojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9me3usbtv4o1a2n78iuqdpv3t/sabadeduxekuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80e50f43822611224bc5241d1e4c0485/78418026560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/xakowupojozezafikutivowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/63768678361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4omb8sibdeked6rffmkt3l8180/34529007598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/juvefelifaxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/52909311692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c902367f8d---vovotusibupitafisotexobuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948c0568727---48754018285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=dog+man+unleashed+pdf+freePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4D 5456 bytes
SHA-256: 0a642dd9c5aa999542c5014b3cb4795cf5e617fd47ddb86db52288b13cadd605
font_01_sfnt_off0000feb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB5 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 1ac7f811014c050ebd1a39c67c7e2d321275d1374a651f8e80384ece0b98fb34