Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bd119180ecb2d9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:13:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2ae547a4d4453e57c8ac543a97becd07 SHA-1: d8522ad8e6b53a2266c9ed41a615e7fd80ec6b4b SHA-256: 6bd119180ecb2d9e0cd4d93bff076501b89fdd5c6ba18261538716645470d545
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS upload directories and the use of UTM parameters suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=naturebond+manual+breast+pump PDF link annotation
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85137655619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee1b8971cd---xoxiwidazakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f100c494c3cc839931fdd0cbc292453/gepipotesapogikikiwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chip-chup.hu/upload/file/pasuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbgpiti.com/userfiles/files/dajofaxefikonuzoxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1712ac2e6157e8fffee5acedf2239250/pikolezerixazagikowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/92123001244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/wunanavowapegarujilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087dae667755---86045952390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607335629adf4---32815532081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a64062ef42---70956672304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tverzhilservis.ru/foktver.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mudulumotiboguzasuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/70401629914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210702_2B80B61672B1257A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/16545515332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a154ea3e250---pototazafafika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d606793adc---bijevizefarofez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c6c3d556da---sogava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77dd1424e0---tonamas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5bb10309fc---dutewugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ft078gd7fsauir6564arapnieo/35043940141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c835b0e3fb---22913115405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/geiia3pefiisstv6nbh9jqeof1/rekezudutamiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d70898e45a3---xidufezelelovi.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_off0000da25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f237.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF237 17136 bytes
SHA-256: 4d96c1733cc04f7fe74a327df03db3392a1ce84f3bde489b342f43eb87de38dd
font_02_sfnt_off00011e84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E84 10680 bytes
SHA-256: af9bcf7fb40aa51fdb029b33ed5ae34322b8f76a7d46b748a2b61df66aeeb209