Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c5c9129c33ceca7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 01:28:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 39b6a365787d7db496137e21d70772a2 SHA-1: 0c5371e5d003bbc4c5ae687c453bc12ceab55547 SHA-256: 6c5c9129c33ceca744bac279bb10ba92e5b77be8a647fe1dbcfb8aa1fe61f719
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly supports maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to potentially malicious websites via these embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae28372aae---63778095648.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798b2cad41b---23531924043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a2tjd8t1mi9h1a311e61sr3c3/benije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/giwudizalemajitorewebawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12d370e9f98c38ee82b54768b30d82ac/xasomofesafusitupebunamaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stijsr.com/userfiles/file/ginikemusoturubasirajida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210610_6BAB0BEF9B72533B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6feb6c6b120cfddceb594d36adade74e/53217131211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spamsmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/18859535419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94709957549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e512cd9bdbf99c0bcd24081301b8995a/57674790585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a24a6f979a36d4aa72c883203f16df80/fumozojivemex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f9e3d4605---tenamebuwutitanizigujigaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/negidad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/62790545240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/xawedotaxaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7edce4ec21---55775186852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6090ef3cb2---3828584530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d3f2m3sacsb0etub9vkv2fipk/48573504610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-harmonics.com/upload/files/43850148734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210511202448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00dfcc644a19885480d5ec4f7edee849/78885650168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shidoremicrosys.com/media/sigonitekizinawabega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c71adbe175e---ravomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=mbd+sure+shot+cbse+sample+papers+class+10+pdfPDF 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_off0000f3cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BDD 17648 bytes
SHA-256: 8acceb825a06d17d8ff5baf8640d9ea0ca78ac9211b272f7d13d12963a68e5c3
font_02_sfnt_off00013a16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A16 11096 bytes
SHA-256: f243c5968cfce5d115e2794ae62f8f2152cf4b6b9b1847a0e9709a435ee08739