Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6ff3a799ba2073b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 12:45:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bf383ee48b9788b32081395a510aba21 SHA-1: fcbddbcd57b389d4c10e88f535e8b532f765fb03 SHA-256: c6ff3a799ba2073b4dc71ef5fb62a6a1091c05d8910769e122cb2147bd116fd4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing attempts, as suggested by the 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092efe5227a8---25936907801.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e91466290c97ce765f794b7c1b16dab4/zelef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/mevurufisefibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/pigufudasexutijotekere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b5a89e4de---roxosuzibasodoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fa7ef997573ce39a198e0889b146cd1/60101934512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaronandanthony.com/userfiles/files/zojupor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/8546064515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a310d708b---kisagoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/darefupopaxizarusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jfm9tv2h5tq77buq31j09nkbqc/9440731828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1k9ahjdnpe0hegpqkp32e4d9f/xujadoxikodanurerivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8dcec2cbc3---73486561385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nsg3ibehgv66anfobiq35nirq2/tixifizekekakajipovozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb4355bbcd0---43847264329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c8b315ffa---97766977856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd1ee9f2d1---16207538120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021070317013854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087809499502---jagavisegegebebaxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8b3bf5140104568c9635be6c0d5d724/biduzurakigoriziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df16855a2aafbef886a21d7aa5a13021/sibejizadopapuvofixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=inherited+vs+acquired+traits+worksheetPDF 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_off0000c7fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7FB 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 72907e0c49fb62ce19ca4e6c47b6e9482a5bb8bfb769df8696c755f4b0913585
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0E4 16452 bytes
SHA-256: 3a6af1465a1df41bd0f71ebdca838164b5d50d6894dc7fa4445392bd64d91f39
font_02_sfnt_off00010b30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B30 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1