Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b9cf988cad60421…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:03:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 92198655202d10bdc03d5f7591a185a0 SHA-1: 464c04314c4e168a3423473818cecdb1dace50ac SHA-256: 6b9cf988cad604215a5d43e3d9020f388c36330b1d07ebe3e2cd17f3965a1a19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages, aiming to trick users into downloading malware or revealing sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_CB1EA098F1E29184.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a8fe2d3bc---remanowiligixedoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940b24b0e30---78493262553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a9dd98de09---65746326089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/62964448794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ae50cjl44e9mk0upl2b3b1qpv/74752861450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrosedale.com/uploads/files/63357393833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4775be8797c1fdd2eb1768233769da8c/lugebagivadawesomiluseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66dd13201a---vuduboka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/gowafudone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khunghinhdepphuctin.com/media/ftp/file/25513771235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mgjs97hck98ivh3auqejpv1ll3/dosuragekubuzosefufemowij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f42a01f879a3d917db9ed4eae206edea/31795969333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/guperijozes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t0phl541971oss2rhi8bmh3fdr/65109180334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.cz/files/files/denilejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/22018841437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/wibizezapep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/sedevoxidigeruvoloporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lidiyageorgieva.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90667215803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyadvisersaustralia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb2ba79c56afae5223494f0e0c85ac69/36227648562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damoorefamilyreunion.com/clients/7/71/71c8bb141a0941b69292984b9770a174/File/bunisapivokov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=rate+up+profsPDF 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_off0000dd66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD66 17580 bytes
SHA-256: a7151460322dbae735ea43b2299af62a6ef4308c63095434f80a74586014ac07
font_01_sfnt_off00010b0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12325 10256 bytes
SHA-256: b314b89f46e3ca9940c99fb42aed00bd416ba210fa0da7388bb93f9c4ab4438e