Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6b6241de142ef9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 12:51:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 17f7ae3f735e71f42a1044ec4d0c0ba1 SHA-1: 7a6b09bf8a87ff6ef5dd2e2ac34c618cdeb2f18d SHA-256: c6b6241de142ef9af34faa3f6dca681f97de8ce3545befddb1552dd17673d962
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs indicate a coordinated effort to distribute malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imaau58bcnm3qag6j93vrilu75/71107579105.pdf
    • http://bualuang101.com/backoffice/upload/files/63222675954.pdf
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b72e2b635dd1501fa5b4b3ad4f7e2874/41492917718.pdf
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21fbdb9577351e90a7d8d6edb5193f03/51326602194.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ef77a41ad---12407074156.pdf
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b801f3e7f59422aaaacf3c1ada9ed9ff/47320449399.pdf
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/11854011140.pdf
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/16228039977.pdf
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49e6cc73be4e27f97d8c0306701e9aa4/fuvasuvoja.pdf
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76006755396.pdf
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/23309700681.pdf
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b3d7e68c3---98195544945.pdf
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9omb5344flrsn14mqn7aetea30/76355559923.pdf
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c01c277dc0---vowirilevufasewe.pdf
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609883752391a---24103372292.pdf
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/nokadeduma.pdf
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00m2s9a0arssvro631kaohpus5/72619797009.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3bd551b4c6---48483310597.pdf
    • https://sankohomestay.com/userfiles/files/26026233922.pdf
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d35ff34dd---lurixijena.pdf
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/222ce8a9e6a83049e0deef76621272d0/99432526178.pdf
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/pilolubu.pdf
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4cf2933626---rebavepuf.pdf
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/rokad.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=capitalism+leads+to+socialism
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7c3.bin
a8f5ff5250b4fb6c43a2bc200f1a7885be1d14db1e722681b90f9afc39d55cb7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C3 10504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010fa8.bin
499914369b159f30ecffacb115c6612b4886d866ca3ec958b44dffeca187f387
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA8 16936 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013b19.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B19 16792 bytes