Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6725c6a38788918f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:03:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 0d8522d2c2cfa62a4fffe77bd05b180c SHA-1: feca83986b075a0d6206992688892f74c46673e2 SHA-256: 6725c6a38788918fc13b701ab5554e375c6aa2be1317b5f61ee546da4d9f25cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating it likely serves as a lure for phishing or to distribute further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://geosond.pl/userfiles/file/26687165972.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140d8f1164c2---35202956892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5006c9e02583b5e383b14fb5ca5b532e/wuvoripenoxanokawatumexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133844c1d66e---32778027264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10651104802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusiongrup.ro/userfiles/file/774330181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhavanarayanaswamy.org/userfiles/file/62459286998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjengo.org/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/gerezoxegepajosumegovax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fibed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebel-moscow.com/content/xuploadimages/file/zexubegabikito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamhelios.vn/luutru/files/tifasesepobaxutemaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrecchina.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38810925770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a92c0eeb326fd591d11a7b33717b443/bufutuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakistanchristiancongress.org/userfiles/file/10318572104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamishehbaharcarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/66146694661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tixesunarosikigokoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388c13e2039---16550440373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/37564548128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.at/upload/gemuxisulirorumupixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902220826153297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/37659193372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinczeandlaszlo.com/upload/gufuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rpsbchamber.org/editorData/file/60966531822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfwofficial.com/ck_imgs/files/58519240889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayou.tw/uploadpic/files/202109110401257596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=geothermal+power+plant+flow+chartPDF 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_off0000d0c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8DF 10612 bytes
SHA-256: ab926c3663ccd8025838f3d48da476adbf2fb3e96fe33f590b17eb9552c1714f
font_02_sfnt_off00010109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10109 16340 bytes
SHA-256: 00f8a8ff97c11b9f5e2cb9412b221d3476adcbf8a453c98e339d36e592479b58