Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6af0801ac33823f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 12:20:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a606e4471e0a16b4ff72db702d0ff719 SHA-1: 20d08575fc20f494b1c757490de6786d7d6edf3e SHA-256: d6af0801ac33823fdf4727eccd5198764021ac141e4f19e85c125fb984813055
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 a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages, potentially for SEO poisoning or to deliver further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94c768146253bfa4e0ae0aa98279bcb9/nezudamozevale.pdf
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f08554890846880b66c6ad60991fe873/6274274804.pdf
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9nim81ru6kh86nbjocbb7auccv/54509432148.pdf
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/34884839817.pdf
    • https://tungafilm.com/dorceiys/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37964465210.pdf
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/10421093123.pdf
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b1399d671---69492844952.pdf
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/63356666400.pdf
    • http://kamkmori.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23462406925.pdf
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609053ab5ca61---28626353139.pdf
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/207b03c65b0a7729aeb543b8b9b85678/givupem.pdf
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928c15375d3---24294911824.pdf
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/68070285511.pdf
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/36790202004.pdf
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b2b2616fe84e5a68c7fb0700177f95d/rajamomiwogumolil.pdf
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/magikigeganazifemowu.pdf
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/37275627451.pdf
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/umirhfvlr9m3sufbmdpjrka65t/237528092.pdf
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/latafuberuz.pdf
    • http://gt-outillages.fr/ressource/site-image/files/dokexiwiwixulovatemenovi.pdf
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1288322170---39146656041.pdf
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d2d67c464---webesuwujapefab.pdf
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607419f41b477---lulugipominajese.pdf
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607949a6d33cf---85351609486.pdf
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc47e53412---zilebasob.pdf
    • http://daismene.it/file/lirodasen.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=splenomegaly+treatment+in+ayurveda
    • 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_off0000ee89.bin
8dbbb097822ae1a08ad963d49f671db71467678f576855a3cfefd72bae8d57ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE89 10924 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000107a6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107A6 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011fb8.bin
ec4c83f2dd72144c4ce5cde99422610797d5417ebe98b2f83c9e4d245c2de348
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB8 16428 bytes