Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca6464fa6224d50f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-07-26 14:41:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9b41d18cba99d86cbff42b70dd059394 SHA-1: e6c16b4393898b7262b22280c96457dbec5b0b2c SHA-256: ca6464fa6224d50fd8fd2c0187007f6a52abe3915bbce7f7cb42849f7c3bbf32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely serves a malicious purpose. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. This suggests the document's primary goal is to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210611111452.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6f45450e73---95322448543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/xukonabodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd2aes3l8dgidb6q3osp2rvknu/jiguposubitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/06/file/202106041712455738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debnine.net/UserFiles/File/jimefogudolexuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20d192d45d9bef4bce1e4f7ea636c536/bivitadifuvow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53234609ea9293bdb3d6533375e74ec3/xajotosulemuguwixen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/32575152262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sffejuidruhilvjako5hb0h485/vapevadukese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607717eab2833---joradobowakiropuvelorasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47bf69efdb784f7e9b06fcbd1e7428af/26969899835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futuralagoparking.eu/userfiles/files/fenugegujuvazumobekajaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8c6e37016661064d69ed9831cb75ec9/xifodofuzaxuwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77649ecd35a4d78db967ebc204ce5e01/7852074726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12d438ec98096e3677ed26d1558414fd/68623397478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ed25b54d6---bowelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sansboundaries.com/clients/f/fd/fde0d4b6b324343791c5f0705b221951/File/benalunujotiwulizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpreceptor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vasorubumavupona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdseoulps.com/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/73654403276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9ad1a9c471d13706a88fc770f6b32a9/kakolofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/tesivajapir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb9e527129895222f0d67af273320bdf/66562927806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f2a831e54ef5f581b48809925bb2198/kegolojabazasugix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+crochet+easy+magic+circlePDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20b2cb18dc2ac30a88b7ecae74d498e3/22899994713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011498.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11498 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012caf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CAF 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 98b41ae5e1aaf09da00c3cf9c5cf78e9990c2b7751d7cc40cbb4480c6f9f79cd
font_02_sfnt_off00014586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14586 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 59d222501ca4cec4568ca92f0c5803147ba76cb02dc901a4d1b985b88164f250