Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6881407416441eb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:07:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 28a9ef087744dca32d40595780037c43 SHA-1: db52b2645a69d1ab132b6092ef1d9e7f4e441fcf SHA-256: 6881407416441eb877ca8e31d53d79c7eb90f33e7d46e05622c07de8fa098491
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 a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lead users to phishing pages or download further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of many external links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=syndicate+bank+fd+rates+2018+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images//fck/file/baruzudiledaxexikejemip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a95bd63d80f93d9c2520850fae2175f1/49069547941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konberdbio.com/upload/files/41003347739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba7e99d1424---18301269453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4f0fa52aaa---82248678293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betibg.eu/webroot/img/files/dipixoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d479120a3---bemotagas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labuchedeberce.fr/userfiles/file/3939835572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/duremud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motorlustor.net/userfiles/file/25047526071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/11422244529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c73f4da7626---2222832771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcolono.net/userfiles/files/17506010721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buren-kompanie.de/userfiles/files/19651112072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71e0881fed---62728267310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9go4ll77r0lm3p6e8jo8ot19o0/kokanemevixaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48c3a62eb05061330fa0c46f504322d0/zenamapuzatitedepomojemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b34214fb33---vanisewibuterepaparokerab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ksh5n1ifpf5fr5br5tjtaj155/14829946201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54914902144ada142d45d00cc28eed73/79180629958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuttotop.com/userfiles/files/mowafazunebadosapisaduno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aae71263984bdfd9e4488acc9c8239bf/gewoxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6789de7f5a---motetulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210613223714295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e2d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAE4 19140 bytes
SHA-256: 944b0975fee0cfe037a4dee0c2d5b38f18212babaf6200a4489fd3390696927e
font_02_sfnt_off00012c33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C33 11368 bytes
SHA-256: 5f695951c37fe6fe4ac1ae4b2d732068fe3f8e00d399464a5cddb5e0b23b44bc