Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e06882d5b8c7e620…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.4 KB Created: 2021-07-13 10:18:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 927ee04e99057a2e336a3882beaa0646 SHA-1: f49869363bc82ed9e9c8e65e4b71195594331149 SHA-256: e06882d5b8c7e62055f76b141199b88ce373f76dbd5c43bcd7f184cd62740b8e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The file's structure and numerous external links suggest it is intended to lure users to external malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing campaign or to deliver a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9926

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://vaness-sens.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tizigesesinirezapezemo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/90652616598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/muwofumubolewikokufemasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830b6a29c70---nozadabaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ae2b061830bb78afaeaa8bf06e43c9b/xirolowaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ceaee5fa9f---xutolukivubemedid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoanalyze.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8160a23e0240093b81b90c1bcf5e705/84422881433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessservicesuk.com/userfiles/file/xilejuparexixixugezefubuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/sabimiligejosenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mgb5h20labt42368d2j3i9euqh/22625330462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hefoc3vv1reqpe903h39su5rq1/74801378826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b9be478fc---21312716073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088327ebf1dd---1917985742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/73870058754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10745278034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/fivarulotusefar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c921067858---89599443985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb9866ebc72---63784354491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b8m1p4in56nkfdq42gdbthtjk/25324903747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa43cac119---53458392084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilni-kadernictvi.cz/files/file/redofuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ed66bf14306e664ccf953865f6d7523/xugilenubimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088019ff0178---56659810095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef8787e85a---29445748737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=guess+the+horror+movie+quiz+answersPDF 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_off00012bad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BAD 18208 bytes
SHA-256: b93398179deabeecc21c68740f8c66aaa640d86a64b4251135830d8881b5cc1f
font_01_sfnt_off00015b0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17324 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 6e1a87f1054df1a0f71783c92dda0f80d5baa0bf28276a7c086e28b57432814c