Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6b0ac9e36a4b671…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 10:22:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 5ec1a5164cf4cd2e454262d098222364 SHA-1: 1ff58df2484f8b27c3390f5a5e0acd418745f393 SHA-256: f6b0ac9e36a4b67166b1392c14710a4d4963fdaf31f2c673b3431d2b9c03c0a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and other disposable hosting sites, likely to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The document's structure and numerous external links suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or malware download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/wumunivanegikawovusaxiwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d686787a9---xixis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5e2fc10303ec3bf4277b6d537401069/28097349191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werbemittelag.ch/upload/file/sixotivupuzinapojaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ae4583a98---dimapitixug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d5663912c---noganexisimenokemuvukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/310431022887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de3057e69d---58199766636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hqqurnsjj8qra9cvr6sbv8qv3o/26733451537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u854n5tblrggano20f512i09dr/tawotuzoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210621005044466891c94e3d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b285a13f195---47359217693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ch8ge8v50jg3napeq9oc25p24/goruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6959a5bdfc---zedasawusup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d513702ed9b---29187662613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094aa437271b---83176721858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buildinggodskingdom.com/webcms/file/taremeteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ebb157260---52937799547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e942ecd6ba---bovanusopufizel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/asowejemorarupixerukawok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/liligozewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/98500647877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6153d87c2bc06bb268d4d5820b91251/72221184483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e57d1900ea83de3a567ce50458ced9ee/tepuwati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6laiprv0023r17r5ihtf2rjtbb/86409818669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79d20f9606a59fb117c94f12f9d009c8/72037167493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=one+way+slab+example+problemsPDF 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_off0000ea92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA92 17628 bytes
SHA-256: 0f73a7397c012806c3620a328bf7d3e38c104f8f3def5cfd113c28d6be03bd8e
font_01_sfnt_off000118c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130D7 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 6246c777a1a1435b846f5416da0856f7d29fba32df39e9a466eb4d15801d6394