Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6041c8ab93236469…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 05:26:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b918312baf6bd5dc47ba38e68c600c5b SHA-1: 43b8902dd8d6b1ab392b29e13f212ca60de2a486 SHA-256: 6041c8ab93236469aacd49129aa1f21a6062d3c274252a87886a38a3c2dbdede
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to lure users into downloading further malware or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=blood+magic+support PDF link annotation
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710297c7c8c---58433768888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nappsa.org/userfiles/file/40120696459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078822b8885a---14941138382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607293ad6aa12---vozizesopavemaxixeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4a20cb3e098a50a09a533aa260f39cc/47368668599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/ponuriso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846139cfdda---50751834038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb6d10651ec---vepawunemisukolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k762orm1gh2ht4pp146uhe3buc/53172432359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vfkv4nvt0fhovjr7eus6p19mhh/15962953118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/pabakobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900f8f74220---liliduzujilebewubiten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadatv.com/webroot/img/files/zabokaxinogepamuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af8e43d181e---wajabepekokapakofepikel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/99683671218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082714d48704---fekoxezivewugazezar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36c67ad838---rajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stbenedikt.ch/userfiles/files/19460900692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqm76k6ljtog34hlsght5h52si/45131214423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iam6lfio19kifos2oekre2e554/gadekuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://global-brand.net/userfiles/files/galimuvip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/7569107775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbch44kn85elnfd034ciuk8s05/99170685072.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_off0000eeb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C7 17568 bytes
SHA-256: ce1041a7aebb86e01c525fb7c226ad5308884a2388b64b8cb82b32d2fee2e01e
font_02_sfnt_off000134ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134FF 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 9635a1725618cb01b9f0d37627d1613c299a8e5b6eeb994a23e11332f9de1db8