Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c0def52d95405b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-08-19 03:53:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0a1804d35957681213fef6b99c40c219 SHA-1: a87e4dcce5ef555220e57879717cff19f0b3ab99 SHA-256: 6c0def52d95405b3d614718dad0c483edfabdee500a64c698f763ab76562dbae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malware or submitting sensitive information. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of external URI links and link farms on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dbq+what+were+the+underlying+causes+of+wwi+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/muxosujofineviduzixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096064f64880---tedewabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilanatofishing.com/home/sandbox/domains/shelter.sandbox.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nozupisanogisix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/poqkqnnq0au4povmmjsf8mpif0/limokegozobasoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5fe7dea921---pejob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szwygs.com/upload/40937488740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/47574692976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/15912712210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/1879055693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ae450fcf7e26a7570a72c1f27f2dc46/lakunijitiwezizokenenoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/borekuwonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togeltop.net/contents//files/17955440748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulanceservice.pl/userfiles/file/91358517334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vd67a65touaadt3681j7kcee34/99567558974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.poolsrus.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zowamoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105181907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd3b4ccedd685baf24611f879cf83a25/36420012380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12cf4a0aff6e4d712a1b7524485c0987/71752430718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurad.eu/files/file/84825888943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikitellirezistans.com/upload/files/javoguvusizuwigomugifuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/xugajetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/58618266520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13f279e0a3912339afc052cd3d30bb49/22853399741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c91be6cfa58ebeaf5ad254c609a940ab/87987667527.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_off0000c7a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7A6 11344 bytes
SHA-256: 37002316eee83b5d5ee5e77bebe072f99f8e554e48df4922af7b8bd5ad083674
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9EB 15476 bytes
SHA-256: ba6048986f9f11921171ce56aafd5a5c45e1aeff59b3b7d33035eb374eab5d73