Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6271c88b8a9a872a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-08-18 09:53:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0a921ec887d7d0e5671b5fdfeb176fc6 SHA-1: ea53a2d91a9b7f9610820ceb010ed89e07cdb90e SHA-256: 6271c88b8a9a872a4508e61bd111ca44974205f58ddadafd3832138f47b1bb25
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document's structure as a link farm suggests it's designed to lure users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pudofirokaligitos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa833352e89---xulipoporijuzemedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d68df578e0a47d5fe141858f1e33386/vuvezokejurosep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f318ffe9b00---dejeroxomifiwadojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/18022377766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/30872796997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fao1i6pmmebjdje9g4fte7mqo/vebozadijanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/34300190913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9aec526223f6a1f65a095b38d6149a1/kazibaderexilarijul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25bccd177bd15bd848793438f59ab272/dikowovukobawerimexubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47a1a332d38a911241a2b8b0b1d9f145/wofuxububonux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/kagezusuwotonat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/febinosakosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tia2t0vevj6l38qef4h9af6697/44749143971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makeswebsites.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/69680988278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc9f0536316b18306b7595b34cd957cc/nijiwokolifopolabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentbucharest.net/images/userfiles/89543506158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topjobsnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/laduxediludolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/53909909298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/94388539129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c321cccbec7---veketelidagegowaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumsnab.ru/uploads/files/61438908150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=bhakti+gana+new+song+dj+meinPDF 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_off0000bd90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD90 14892 bytes
SHA-256: 62ee8b21062d4f5160def47511a2c8b9de62ccea95f72335af466153a5a31ba1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e364.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE364 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 168d71ca3ca76398eafc6f1663de26d27a7de716309d62addeb4d20b814b3bd7
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1