Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6812f9140b2a0647…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:24:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 205be6195aca9dc36b934c406218c56f SHA-1: 73a692199dae84a31730841b675451d8107d97a4 SHA-256: 6812f9140b2a0647bd0a172918928f62fbc7e6ef24cab9a429cb7092e1084481
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters suggest a coordinated effort to distribute malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/18281370424.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b7b11f787---kigozuvasewepuxewidagumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/738c3184ce43814f8a471f0db8ce85a2/vumugorarupufinesozefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984b1fef932---lebotegujifasomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tootooair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210608_5A9376B7BE066837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f90143a11d---tujewakexalemokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/lalarejadizawufikamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870220eede1---dolizosakonefubabetomugep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uceng.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/38161791028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161093b843b3df---tojugipurubajelewawegadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_7C054C84B522B182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snsi.jp/image/news_file/lotazafifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4030378c1---15015032788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1ad126a11f---73340819223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e0a382928---potuzokozetefenoluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briarcliff68.com/clients/71184/File/kosoganifarekemivezafika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/55477639288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f65e2757a12f6bf0fe5fcb00ea528ca0/mizamugekitepem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1ec3f3bfd---61354371470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608924273e5d1---puvilabotezugopuwezojapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/lejolenuwidobotamerofel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/wejavigadolumexaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ab3f46204ca73bcb443aa7d20b8b18a/70939695623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=integrated+marketing+communication+strategy+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_off0000b6d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6D4 11176 bytes
SHA-256: a367c305ddb945552430d1f478834c8f0637bb67d95ead37ee7ded62839a9560
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e8df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8DF 14756 bytes
SHA-256: 1bec6796c9731a2899340ab6b97ade2d09be2e98e98060ec01ace7eb11a18137