Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c4b642c9ddc6725…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-08-25 07:50:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2bd5d14a8a78defc3aaad5c7949c8f31 SHA-1: 5d274e03bac37493b46eea894ed80a4cecd9ca29 SHA-256: 6c4b642c9ddc67252a8055d4ecac63c476968fa7409b5a56a503536256bc57a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other unknown domains. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6787fde53f---89820804701.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/15929061817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1353a550c231cb5ceb6e77c997b2db3/romokaropatadojosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beulahcooleycollection.com/clients/870349/File/70268023982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/tixopiwete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bf1f046ba---jamexaferepewat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/90316558625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prvugkh.ru/uploads/files/6095248605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesartsdansmonjardin.com/userfiles/file/20210527004732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/80716394818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinyezi.cn/upload/kutotofediviji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.vn/Images_upload/files/jobowoxazipekemazug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/vavusawemowax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72a8316f77---80537698900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloslow.com/data/userfiles/files/18472664556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/79320444897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titusrelay.com/clients/e/ef/ef304ccc03541e9e6382bef5f13b0a7d/File/jukajatotazafarizawer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/54765641746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents//files/vakabapixokegeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99130138050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611065e4dcac9---livofolitifixiwuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/93116177988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/lovosuxofipumewujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609890c9da00c---xixofefunotixusovigizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/buluranatepowuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=international+business+and+lawPDF 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_off0000dadd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDADD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F4 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 391b6c2313b8617e7b00ff3a338fd5c6542f98c2326537facab5a66f19a4aab3
font_02_sfnt_off00010b06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B06 17328 bytes
SHA-256: 5af209a9c7dcc88be34181617f245f39d4dc4cab8b5fbd5f10964f99f343c36a