Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6948efb13cc807b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-06-10 21:56:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 3ad02571460d325b11832a0ceb31a478 SHA-1: 3eab11c169a4fda30ffa23dd087cff1de4bf2d34 SHA-256: d6948efb13cc807bb54929f1c82745a9f35bfa8d8531eb52f2ca437bd791ee62
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be part of a link farm hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=21+century+21+lessons PDF link annotation
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/59807602482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/57220901241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/42388227413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c979b7b334---valumuxugerinubuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carroll1975.com/clients/4/4e/4e2b018d07aaa5a30c3e4fca1c7a8df7/File/roponekorogideja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b0e96630f---rotaradagilelajidebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kj03irgrt98uo6ooe0gulq6n9a/58233517324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5r1dhfad41n7gjp6e8avlpbdq/65454899963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/085d398de3fbd78fc0211421601fe364/94112684677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chennothinterios.com/uploads/file/47922655648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5761692fe7a85ba0f940f846f248949c/rabokumexuluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbbd9715fc367cb7ba67fd56b9fe569d/84697666566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d966cbcbbe99bfc141535290202d401/71503510840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f7c068efd---40543493408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804de20255b---zunojedazosugusidijawigug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30f72a5cbdd8eff94f7f8547a4200bb2/siwozelezasilomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000105a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A1 4776 bytes
SHA-256: 37243f3cd199c4a1d68553bc30111763163a8c106d6f66fe5c0049c9663f3287
font_01_sfnt_off000115ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FF 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 577107611bc8891d029f6b75d9f09daa502d19865b76815b165a4aed9563f591