Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6a7fb1500371b2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:21:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: af9df2771703cc2cb2167aa8ff8bae26 SHA-1: 298362ca1692601c05adad9affecebbc994e8a54 SHA-256: b6a7fb1500371b2b4ec2d2397a47855dc589f8386ba7808a0bb323888da1e42c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites hosted on disposable domains. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of these links to lure victims, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a60c437c584---boloxobamuxatapajop.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mokhalasati.com/userfiles/files/78974402421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/511760c15b578394cf6aeb59f5c70c26/11649691167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/dafuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db6234a335---melulebazifezed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c573c03763725a2c5b9b8565f30a2d6/79485784109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/xofejunemevurirekasudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610063ca553ae---59746227313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/21876084706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9c6c0a427---47626868499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velocimapper.com/webfiles/file/wesiwipekebub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f193d00bd4---52363872626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/95155192692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3wsystems.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/zewapanowuvupeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608738af53351---betusobibasaxejim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160800ba64fbf8---11305364645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088961a87370---17121787800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ni5g9skb0cb1sdcscrk6kgvf16/33249709215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609874c4e935b---filod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/52744177249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoinhikhoavn.com/img/files/654757620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5558a963c915afc209af9e6be7b5c861/37339996314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=psychological+case+study+sample+pdfPDF 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_off0000e4fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FD 18204 bytes
SHA-256: 7276480b22fc50bf7a4e48b27282db8853b2dae339b3d6d3957fb1598a001fca
font_01_sfnt_off0001143a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1143A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C51 11076 bytes
SHA-256: 8b2f5f9d662ab063ce899a2399e76faaa3447b3d83fa936884b05dd710fbd346

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