Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6272c9c942ffde21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-08-15 02:54:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b80edcfaafb1be2d21859539453f6741 SHA-1: 59e4c47c7984f38b9ca50f3153e4fc12820720ea SHA-256: 6272c9c942ffde21148b14a5f9a15297ff81d4f6be1b11ebc65685550ef43e4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to domains that are either compromised or appear to be disposable hosting, consistent with a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://lysfyyy.com/upload/files/23395265057.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fe8ee19c6ef5c0d2c835b114e1a451a/29898071235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b01703589fdf29fbadfdb9a180aae5a/xorulatobikimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/57331468646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/2241058294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a0b10aede---tekaxegejukufuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historico.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/remajegeleladowabumemopem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824b04af49b---wakozepudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160961215b8ca1---8871714330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domoticasociale.it/immaginiNewsletter/file/jogemule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4173d9cbe36473bcfde6391de809e21/96303983018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2gk25nqpod27l6lns7ktgf2u7/2820498003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebf2c7bb38---16490734698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ondrejkocar.cz/img/file/lupipawejividatejoxetew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/72546225047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f76024a86c2---sezokoxibikodago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0411941bdb---tuvuzinikuwavelake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thumpamonpally.com/userfiles/file/zusone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/43168120161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111f775045a3---76299452483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd871b5cb6---91397440693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiahealthcaredentalcentre.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86627560401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/sodemijoxojozetofuwixufok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/zolaparizipujoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fcfc7819acfe0172d0b01f7b6990ebf/virak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc17ab8f15d---bezus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=clases+de+palabras+ejercicios+resueltos+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_off0000de46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE46 10912 bytes
SHA-256: f4c72d157570a03677db607a1c4023dbd2d0a0f85d97b88aa1eafa477a54d79f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f762.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF762 18220 bytes
SHA-256: b0dc0b838c2796ddf5e81152549afcc0d8944a90fabc8b81faa913bcf060651e
font_02_sfnt_off0001256a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1256A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1