Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b557fdc6d8098a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:19:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6f728e07735c6abaffd290ba1ea8bd37 SHA-1: 2d47e09ff5aeef8f7180ef5995926683bd93dccc SHA-256: 6b557fdc6d8098a7dc052524ce927cc8cac7ef1d148f094f9c2be257720331f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress sites. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2dcfeb5a7---bewawakegaremane.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gloriouz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77187832698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7109d166b1027738f4b1c8a409c4af4a/64112620253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionklara.cz/userfiles/file/felulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b71ab36b6---bebofutekupufuzunasal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a95eacc4e79214d5fb77e837fff1f54b/49034378691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e99a4e9844---58166248302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b568ab93a---35850821284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/89380997284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bp3u9j011upqm4p3hl58uq520o/86882061552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075989dcffb7---46342183904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7895d13ef---ragabevavanuzajobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lku3lui94htiktsed33e3r6bo4/zijilapitubesojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd2cec9972---zonegodesasowivubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cd8926289586e12c19ad08ab4d1da05/4418436730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606edae56f690---foguvobasuzokuvuner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1d4adb7cd2---16741363402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df996478dd---nanoborilanal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feng-shuiworld.com/userfiles/file/53651650305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vt271jouq4fdvqh6bgcj4t4nlt/xipowibiluzifonaxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07011e4d7d48b299f1e713c5501c68c3/vowilelixefila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b50222632d1---34762477286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db4c91efe1---tiges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pcstaiwan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23132672304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobas.cz/userfiles/file/jolonukexinixutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/10152711122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=witcher+gear+guidePDF 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_off0000f5f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F7 17264 bytes
SHA-256: 3b9cdb4c579c4b40f258ef649fe3bb8bceda1e10df748be4a314c6e3a76034df
font_01_sfnt_off00012328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12328 10304 bytes
SHA-256: cee040049f2f6bf36b393a471d4ae94aebe0605b5b5be0f27e39daf01576e2b2
font_02_sfnt_off00013a54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1