Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6244796caf7d8be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 19:34:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 3528ffa5c14a7cc415996272d00542d7 SHA-1: d9d8823a5d5a26de899300651c6ae4eed0fa9971 SHA-256: f6244796caf7d8beb9ac2942f213848bd5fe439b0728a61e2eb20b9da4a29456
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055 Process Injection

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it's likely part of a link farm used for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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 https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1fdaade38e1703b84208d2c6a361f54/karivakux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bfcb208c3---90518879889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbjhockeytournament.com/clients/f/f9/f9ff496842c877cbb4522510b668f2a2/File/40520785896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntrc.biz/clients/f/f0/f0759d16aca5b3dfc9163ee994587b7f/File/jagokarobezenawevejulox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4389b71f7---44009344230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/93077300108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4cd3cdb39---xutotorizisimap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/26369086695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/41996568451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096956d3a919---13030343869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607001e8ecd4e---44690572184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/24585526843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5027f351509bc4764ef394651e590364/8034181623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hermosabeachbungalows.com/userfiles/files/miwidituwivijarunikifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxik.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37013869572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c487513805---90210814894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/fanofanojosawogezumona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/4805452576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9sv61gc0fa6g83q1dl16jbg4io/matudumabusuxulususepefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54243f38da8ed7fd26e41782de5e62da/suxikuzufepudalofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/wijen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1jdrk2pfp6gs7a76li0uif31o6/56107645464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745b54b50e8---7337712500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22ibgsmaofqi9io6uq3j0pkth9/48050332813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/16322902999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f3onkk0agc3lfrf63sa578l73/sawokuxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/54329245109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=slogan+about+environmentPDF 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_off0000e595.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE595 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 79307bfbd711371438211d9798dfafdff1c55ccdb48445dac635b33590f17409
font_01_sfnt_off000112b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012aca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ACA 10664 bytes
SHA-256: aebe8d2ae71789d05e054c44511436f150af391841f7fa66dd7369afeaaa2d9e