Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c1b64cc4a7f9a3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:51:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a5f12dda72de8f19601bf1ac3a9a5157 SHA-1: 295b0a13f28251e1a7dd395750ff07ebbc85fce0 SHA-256: 6c1b64cc4a7f9a3fa6e7c9dc5985c121115c5d6dabcdcd7312d746caf5071b4a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting domains, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs suggest a redirection chain designed to lead the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17jprl04cq1no6moli9huui89v/91653939768.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hasanmasat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19665925206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80apefbdm9ah5g.xn--p1ai/userfiles/52569251126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beverleyannes.net/home/beverley/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77348887794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/xulodulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609080016dcc0---fubuvijofelebab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galerieportelouise.be/userfiles/files/67437592552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc95242dd2---vutibasukeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b48297a0e---72769020290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/18599930938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161097064eef1d---lowubuwebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/86011584798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df2b86d4c8---80037660211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plkorea77.com/ckupload/files/87953438661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etoprosto.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16752817788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/252e542bcf7fade37519e201a987761e/tibakagelifigabonodofizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5nnb0gn133keiebfiremorvg0l/81138437667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/sopevizibasexot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/22871837322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f3ab1b144---negamez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9444ea78167e19dea70300069d5fd57a/rutakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915508dddc3---lasixarawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/95160170285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=splitting+pdf+file+in+c%23+using+itextsharpPDF 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_off0000e6c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6C4 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 07086ff9bdf563ca2e8d034d401af277e3e58cb20eaf3536b15be74ef5762ca0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11602 18372 bytes
SHA-256: b4822bcbd9cd206929a6e0f49d30071dbed366d6558efa9c12f7c5892f90f504