Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c6ec32ff95d633a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:15:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1b457fea60d18c273aa8bc3a9fb9a531 SHA-1: eec3ec732cdd505d044123a4e04923a0ac25af5e SHA-256: 4c6ec32ff95d633a79583d5b64824de89b2ae520327b5b23aff770309dcdcbe4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dce50acff2---kezizinaperej.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/vabenosofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terracetemayonetim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/93717458039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonahotel.vn/UpLoadFile/file/18015079806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4617d88bd5---kobitadilemumige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/63402868312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prota.ru/upload/files/7323166129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3suntech.com/UploadFile/file/20210606052520769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/27661249798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/pebejimizenixudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3c66f99f45e3ea10110e9ff617553ae/zigunisido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1arbfjoe3bzh.xn--p1ai/data/files/96227195348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://email-database.info/userfiles/file/wasow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f839d1ad00408b83cd9fd67bb820063/37659631591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/92326843544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uleshuzatshop.hu/files/file/monufumeserolujapalomiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents//files/wetilasubowewamudezojubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://activesolutionelectric.com/images/file/suxomirinigok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f15b53000d4fb8cb3930ed96aa2a95f/2409270909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://righetti-ticozzi.it/userfiles/files/xumutasokibafur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamwork-poetschke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12098804974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhhangvien.com/upload/files/lufipexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=letras+para+imprimir+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_off0000b553.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB553 16304 bytes
SHA-256: a552369e058d49f5fa17c7fcad16084b0ab9306682ce85e2495031a07efc8a3a
font_01_sfnt_off0000de3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE3E 10344 bytes
SHA-256: b8a4b9ef545e8bcb08407c00d10eb025df2e6b277ce375e467c1216f5f1958d2
font_02_sfnt_off0000f599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF599 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1