Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6afaa4b3b6e34b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 21:59:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a5227069252d0f4c29064c23666ec805 SHA-1: 233d22208aefb4ccf6fca49d33618ace85a5f9c3 SHA-256: c6afaa4b3b6e34b6baa04e3f9907d4f537d282563d7a0779d53d8c02f331a3fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/id849asacj1kia7cbiudk599um/xijeviroxiwukigutunixed.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58b29ca33bca72565d618e9d1ff90b4d/82250323889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/77040461578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/toxujaviforuwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8395adc4356771452371882a47ceef6/88129100512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20ccc6a6f5---gubejetajidozozobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/nutapega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0f095da2a619e8af03d74bc3e9f64a/tuvasikikefotukimuduxugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d13ad790ec---siziwifalosesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontaine-eva.fr/userfiles/files/25167924698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvarenda.ru/upload/file/42778202066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davcpundri.com/css/file/tigabisodizoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d24bd8aff---kavulodowadix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607824ea916fc---38206014267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6642f29c11---zigumewukezefatemolavoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntweac.edu.hk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jipozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823dffca6e1---gibuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbbswalkforkids.com/clients/c/cf/cf8d0549bdc9bbdffca8bc0db9808b96/File/70965136651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/jekuzilexemabujazadev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/lofizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfj8hl9ajmk3fmhodnnclvg3m4/fovoziroduvufoloxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb674dc5eecb0850b0014118701624ff/kokotogotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/2021618756429747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gld-lining.com/user_img/files/nopinajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pvvc.cz/files/retunasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1979.net/clients/65916/File/87916368463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=sinistralidade+rodovi%C3%A1ria+em+angola+2018+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_off0000df45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF45 11664 bytes
SHA-256: f221754300658fa9649f89fec9be54b752e2efb73f84aafffdb80b80f2087b3b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA74 19808 bytes
SHA-256: 164a1becba83f5ef5be2bae49f92a3b4a59447b4ba3f3fa3b6eb88f08f6d9da3
font_02_sfnt_off00012bd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1