Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6f9f2bad35ae2a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-07-23 06:18:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1eeb591a17e08be23ea740d8059bbb07 SHA-1: 911ef0eee7004195bb675bafe93627339cc9e55c SHA-256: b6f9f2bad35ae2a547932bc36e2ff13bac2e7988959c7cc664c8d586255979c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites. These sites host further PDF files, suggesting a chain of redirection likely intended to deliver malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f78b043bgmb7k2tonb3fvpkn3b/66483555432.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0273d00083c7b17cb5c262892fe7135/11381083818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa1f36d0bae---lekobibajadeveforuzoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d59bbb93b5b4a420fb553f022cc1334d/jokekepamezenokepozewoduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ru6g73d67rggssie9mi38mqtr6/wabixumigojimanadositegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inimtrento.it/userfiles/files/1894828781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc0890d15e3---daxokamutidofezuvenepijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf78cb1820---41747882628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/majizupus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/wisibofoluralasaden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e40619e08c9f72c0602599306f105292/fenaninewaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38518629960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e32664543e---basejaruvefozasakumegov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982f253704a---76089481509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyfestival.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/veresejiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canevinclassof70.com/clients/6/6b/6b8b8ee0d314e59372afbcb75100d768/File/fevonasigimaliwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/kawib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea9eba2b47---8130153422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/funoderozafomemaladifile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c418c7887433f741b509d36cc3009532/rineledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca8b4edd867---zebusisobubegegete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//43780266769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1faaba9dffe7f5470165872a454684e3/8548264410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/medorabulovipelomodomek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59d355b979b785fc8a3cacc8e6de204d/denuzafeserokakiteguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c47696ab4ba---titovifivuzetolajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=51200+kb+to+mbPDF 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_off0000e2ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2CE 16572 bytes
SHA-256: 18435541a0dda4dc239cbd0d3436a90071a9a242c29d029e9ad1db1983238cb2
font_01_sfnt_off00010e22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E22 10028 bytes
SHA-256: 9d094a97eb576744c61fbffab27dfb2a6dfa394200613754245074a96576a655
font_02_sfnt_off0001247d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1247D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1