Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c3e697d56727090…

MALICIOUS

PDF

140.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 12:51:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4c03840c535c558ce4cbe948f1c89a3c SHA-1: 08d0cdf5083452ac4d17428ad9e4e915a64d1948 SHA-256: 6c3e697d56727090c06ad258aa40f438307664c6df472341ebe8e17ddea2099a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or facilitate phishing attacks. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9303

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://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/rovewigij.pdf
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/94276548084.pdf
    • http://seventyfirstclassof69.com/clients/60772/File/21648178960.pdf
    • http://vanhacollection.com/images/files/pisipizepikojunokanobuluv.pdf
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6130b86f10---budogexejijatutukerim.pdf
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d30109ab72ff90e4d32f5969b1edeca2/55786465178.pdf
    • https://torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/vanazimimefunerabi.pdf
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ongcke5ifb7b1c5bo0ef7ake8a/82562160879.pdf
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/kitopiso.pdf
    • http://instandee.com/Images_upload/files/tegub.pdf
    • http://dmkaudit.sk/101/upload/file/16512838331.pdf
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc07c557e7d---dewobavoxodiserivozoki.pdf
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086120f1e188---rujupogupolunomewa.pdf
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roxuvovomizobefal.pdf
    • https://nocnepal.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/komobati.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3167bdfa22---bilanuruduniribo.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087825160289---renamiweloj.pdf
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/liluxevolebulorusewisoreb.pdf
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/48514429470.pdf
    • http://7166867.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vedagajakabokexe.pdf
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/xofikolivepizakuvutesumof.pdf
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58a8f36eb1b640b2e44dd084b192b1d9/96734641862.pdf
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d9fa1eeefcfaf20ced813168d379546/53493583511.pdf
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0461141001620074292.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=japanese+surnames+meaning+dark
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011ab2.bin
2e8e34f59cb2fe7b7bdf91186cb8aaa328bccea70242913e3bf4167674151754
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB2 10652 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000132ce.bin
121d4a94baf0f709b5859097eac8c000eaab1ec51b66468826db70eb6477472f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132CE 30736 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001850d.bin
9a6250aa6521c1903e8d9bbed34867ee42b1298ed8e09d8657645a87dda51524
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1850D 19000 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001a4f0.bin
c644c92f30084225cc5f96352049c5b41e0054c9fa72b2c3133bb01a914aa6d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A4F0 42928 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off00020a0a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20A0A 16792 bytes