Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6a43142f9d7b93c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.6 KB Created: 2021-08-05 07:00:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 819ba230a07de2ae4868b3830ff0d9e4 SHA-1: 419e0a551a0bf54a84e46ea6ceeade5fc98a3a21 SHA-256: f6a43142f9d7b93c70e7d6b3848855f0a8367a59e13d7fb9385bbb57296e7ea6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. The heuristic firings indicate the PDF is part of a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://abpaluso.com/upload/file/20015380397.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b5d36082b---sojezesigikoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608367232632b---55672607624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/54138366242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/rumipafasigikewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/46365915295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://train-in-japan.com/images/blog//file/77589605073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/vudedemetekawomonamori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piotrkowska77.pl/zdjeciafile/77534806026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c666a3cc168---28816865076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taketty.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sijobixesadajinale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6c05426227f8b54548f98588b1bb4c1/88180223311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhvuongthuphap.com/upload/ck/files/lemubedoxapelusulefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28f73ae4ce9336b5bf85fe2dbe190aa3/78443285513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4565aa55552bbfc2b5415406e05ce403/momazepawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5c149fc0d---80133511542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wdnederland.nl/file/sudafigiwuxadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b98b7e9ca---2085929353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/45323889900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sl9845os4rhtqkr2s6glf2hrc6/suzave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb2d1234573---7306003365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a52c4eb7ef2---21015054985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30817d91s4p183car5a2h4ke8u/86859460656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f54d3ed9f---32951779183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turinhotelcompany.com/userfiles/files/ridatosexowagesorig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+manual+de+instalaciones+el%C3%A9ctricas+residenciales+e+industriales+pdfPDF 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_off00011e3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E3C 19028 bytes
SHA-256: e1c1528a74fa9ccd9a94216f72774589e253b093255052adf9327c01867f9215
font_01_sfnt_off00014e8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E8E 11220 bytes
SHA-256: d6b0d69d1df939069663b4b6b41b2f15740b4487f462a060a5df594a15b0667c
font_02_sfnt_off00016855.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16855 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1