Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c6f7fae8d19a6c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-08-01 03:45:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7ee9b217fae2761507f0f6bb99ec642d SHA-1: d2076a4cf6c6def74657d261a7ddfd4945332540 SHA-256: 1c6f7fae8d19a6c86df78223f08908f9a14c84406da0fe528e7e27502e14059d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9897

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://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5115352057.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/71665807257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/bemajiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16224725004745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a76066603f8---82386411696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/058225595da1ea294dccd254aea8c56d/piripuzatedifotugolonap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aicpwdosaeast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foniwagowavijawowubisopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalsteakandstogie.com/clients/1/1d/1dbb6d5698303b6304ae84622e226a19/File/95748481870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf971879049---20761137687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ace54b0052769cb3a4acd32b5dc2d339/xipug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appchecar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/geralezubixadex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vebozunapunimexifidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachhigh65.com/clients/879402/File/simezotikuwaniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5o4qvf8fgvidhr695m5a0odkr3/rolaseponidakupetama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/28528219750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/up69ei7senafo44t0259ca2fuu/75032159517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/88271822411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorconsignments.com/media/file/butidarok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/zetusopoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/17585170652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099fdb7b8e4e---nolenigopiduxuvasuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toeterloeh44.de/files/folarevefowavapelazut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnpa7dlt6g0kkhnan2thia190v/waberaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elemonbg.com/Files/File/gonexopogafonekijilobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=resumen+en+que+consiste+el+ciclo+de+krebsPDF 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_off000107de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011ff5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF5 10892 bytes
SHA-256: bec79594f9d0d4e8420ccb951aea84da88702248ec0aaee72af2ec4385d085fd
font_02_sfnt_off000138ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138ED 19324 bytes
SHA-256: 3861d6a542b26c530017651ed2152e5a581c950cea3de913d4f466fe18c457b1