Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c6d1416fc4a2621…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-07-14 10:25:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d7336886cda660a8f706505fe537f249 SHA-1: 2bc9cce3354a4d9e93379629b67e88f272775d72 SHA-256: 1c6d1416fc4a26216dabb564fc90d60d47342ef4ae014be80aaabe8821ee28c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. This suggests a phishing or malicious redirection scheme, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091029508827---xebaxaxukuzisudaleviti.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858f260417c---dedofagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854f64bc868---bemezatujuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/61500429302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5itco1pns2u4h41oahlf99kvs5/likimovitovosukupapufekek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5knsf08fakmqooolgdb2n1kj3/ruletute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sj7c66g7tm608umboi55277vkd/34199165967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff99bb292e---46926519956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92de7fa5edf628e3233f4e35b0d283d1/sunapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chpcentre.com/files/file/42072599739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mb288q75q7l4il76fn2ml1mb5t/89289840969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/33106354546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/33211903568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saleskerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sulix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhomeshaiphong.net/app/webroot/img/files/maborudebororaguzirozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0b30d94587ea9a72e09a27f942121f7/noguvamam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oqihnj90l4fq0e4e8d2a8b4u3o/lalogolutudarum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/56028274380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaandtiarasmontreal.com/clients/f/f0/f03dfc1790708d0b03c48e9879ef2ea6/File/xonepawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d8smgh5vduge423ush076fm31/66495992271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/mugezuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zangerlelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/88464238103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22d9fbea8a---zomulorugedaralimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c38bgqv6sj0tmkka6gek881tr9/zejadigibelonutaruzowanow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jooli.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75914777304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=definition+of+forfendPDF 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_off0000d8c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0DD 9972 bytes
SHA-256: fd22fd607df74a632c2fd7d9ba9599f87bf7e53792df0eca4a675b6097a417e7
font_02_sfnt_off00010708.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10708 17500 bytes
SHA-256: f006d48bd50f46079a62e14ede752375bfe53d8ffb43dcea1c6502751192ce7f