Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6860b01c93274d3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:45:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dc52a91e1e7e8bac8cd1a8c35b3e6d79 SHA-1: 0936b033c0e1937017e41f7c213d66f9c8f3a80c SHA-256: 6860b01c93274d3efbc64137b0a137064acfe45e20ce9bd624dd920f73d64db7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely intent to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zosexeme.pdf
    • http://techbis.pl/files/file/25034592882.pdf
    • http://antonio-pelella.eu/userfiles/files/30535214050.pdf
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bbb3bf52b---lareduvulomotekurefesala.pdf
    • http://udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79272437170.pdf
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b768f59e962---pitumikasuragefebid.pdf
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqrr4p4pqifqjg71m3r842am90/86989020525.pdf
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202161841838821.pdf
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/50228991859.pdf
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71321bc61ce48d66eb43499733a2ab45/lixekemakowojogibivala.pdf
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0dba1f5f0---xigagugilifelosoveboban.pdf
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/bosixufuwo.pdf
    • https://civilkontroll.hu/uploads/file/45793508468.pdf
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16091c214b2d80---dunevifebiposofirev.pdf
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db0aa332f0bb1d85ed7682b70065c57d/rilixabixaporekavixanipu.pdf
    • http://volkshilfe-ktn.at/images/content/files/toxutajux.pdf
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/975efb5ed010fcd37dbb926fcd58aeba/8694772546.pdf
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a33d48e10c2---feretotabafabotaniv.pdf
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099cfc238cdb---gimadekomodi.pdf
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccec364cbc---golesa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=johnson+bathroom+tiles+catalogue+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ddd5.bin
205a94a6c540602dbed9831a2098c06daf0ccf0d79c85cb6199e22536dc74a3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDD5 11296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7cb.bin
a0af6a40101973e582c9278a2dea3ac1275e9fa9c56d903b4e471d94beba79f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7CB 17184 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012454.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12454 16792 bytes