Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b9d6c74eb808bd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:32:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: d972d20d3a8dd58f0d640b51770c9a65 SHA-1: ae549afed4bb8de0fcdca4b722bc24226554cf34 SHA-256: 6b9d6c74eb808bd577446e1e22ef5276301997d317cb2e1d755d235c4112714a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to these external resources, likely for phishing or further malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b18f1b9c6---46140886097.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kfoqhiimqi5ggd7i30cbjrrip3/mabodubexovidesarukoveka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2db6f01b8---bawowinezaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowa-architekci.pl/userfiles/files/bamifimutarab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/nubezimorenelezipebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49t73rkta2kf2jeba6sdr31u45/gaforisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1174e2720ef13246225e16d75dfa929f/fidojiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfb2c11e4f6---56774046483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/24880878682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/tozuvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/57917283144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4omdal17ios253a45vbg9laip/80348946908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/rabafiwagelexepukilukora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0575d1095---dexusovigopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4e11d0fec---kalafitimigelexitudawuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/070e3549fc05df056bf627d8eefeb7b7/22172320644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ed340c393---92174467221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b02fe17fd00---kamisonebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84ae2afef1941801c90062131d31c9d0/39168138021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/51760188618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/39594440017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/notasosevaperedatanubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26bd1edd3b07f8b6526a2d9ad854fdfb/fabugevuvirobadagifoxejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719aa7eb4f7---71007487756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=reading+comprehension+for+beginners+multiple+choice+pdfPDF 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_off0000f6d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D0 16340 bytes
SHA-256: 3875a7ba0a51f04cdeb9c709bd6d186883d1053f3ac2b4c410f565c944aa715a
font_01_sfnt_off00012103.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12103 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001391a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1391A 11352 bytes
SHA-256: a49e346c0dbfb4ab0274d110bfa0cb454d536b254fdf854f004613bd24b743b0