Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d6f6ff8e1715c43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 15:57:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6902123fd12f9e57355d517becc44e92 SHA-1: 4ece298bdea519e5cd8c4c4b843a273c921e7e8d SHA-256: 0d6f6ff8e1715c43cf3ae5d025fbd116623055f4bce2596e8c3ca4b06b2a84db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure suggest it is intended to lure users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pediatric+case+studies+with+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a00c2f0ca---budekexenefimadetuzoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/30820958859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carriewoodfamily.com/clients/5/5b/5b9f2fb360c4065436fb7fe1267c3612/File/47795370437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://branpc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/varaligegeselimijubexipik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/47236342093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/69289305009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c59e917e95bd30a8b3754285f8993a4/jutowosuvuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae4d343b4db---93877150027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9e747a793---4919078243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743da716679---lixatawumebuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/79056684392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903d5918cd5---supumutoxizukosedorubiter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd3a3af31571fff05c4ea3ff6131dcb9/rimibizufevevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5ad6762ddba59f412214a71f9e9b0ab/xegulezimovirufazimixezix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconfam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15492399511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61584531328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c91b0470ec---filubanonisemivogipoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2a015de07e---zalajojowixudud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c90a40d0b12---jopoponisaretudoniluxokon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66b67049d66ef14f5fec8951e4ce53f1/ginel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733e6f61cb7---databulupabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b2a3c6806---vategawasubizoxalivobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010c8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000124a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124A0 16812 bytes
SHA-256: 59f18896c03d86e3333de31cbb9d56bda9279bb14d67b9a8665139b2f1f6f3ae
font_02_sfnt_off0001502f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1502F 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 226623c35b45016c5518bda029b1acae767410a6f18e81920144175597d9a145