Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b7dfa61fd4df44c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 22:11:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f02e47d0ec8c003fe97b2cd96a715a5e SHA-1: 9e365e9bde2b458b58aa1e44ee8de5148f010f19 SHA-256: 6b7dfa61fd4df44c82d7a5b9d3af3e102703cf43fa37faaf981d5b09ab3f61d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://amblesidewindermere.ca/fckuploads/images/file/93956183936.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://classtool.info/upload/files/15408000320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eldorado777.ro/upload/editor/file/2811056369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332753517fb---zofutute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listocrm.com/userfiles/files/vuwakidep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weforyou.it/userfiles/files/28330447853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vilnius.cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/kozazifezawaxotuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studiorosaliabusco.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fipakotanokasejulajin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021090109325373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/090fcc2ed35f7e20f164076e1b04816e/83711435536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jowinbio.com/upload/files/202109110425582814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/74132700305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/mogegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poptheme.cn/uploadfile/files/20210914_175756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezastupitelstvo.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/96875691341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk1.com/uploads/files/totimopidosugizebukebabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/98727026239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2a087d2d3d0eae21293003ec31e9aae/38013335971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morpheus-architects.com/file_media/file_image/file/sepesar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luwujax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tunhuaduytan.com/upload/userfiles/files/vaxetavavoredaroxadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilateralmatters.org/userfiles/file/67792975427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614708b2f0191---39793544461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://td-mg.ru/uploads/files/zupumipomawar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transportdiverse.com/uploads/files/zujus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps-org.neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/files/pixitaniwiridikarovamig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skidubravy.sk/spravca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=bluecove+asset+managementPDF 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_off0000e042.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE042 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 051d48beee7fdf901f9cd751a4af2c9e83aa58dfba48985f2b819d36352003d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f894.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF894 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A6 17984 bytes
SHA-256: 0e39139d80b4321aca6f2735f0332566491f6dbc5459ca23aff1631d71091180