Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c65c86e9c62e901…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:25:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9c583c19dfb6ec0888c420493c609c34 SHA-1: 16abf4e846f94e531c84c3ef9afb585b3a5e05a4 SHA-256: 6c65c86e9c62e901bc00bbf69c15857c2f89b1b4c6b02891aa18d4934a60a4b9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely involving exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to execute code.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dea2007d16f541889f8927fbe9cefdd/komofulonoparifelev.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44067795343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents//files/wosuliwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/ralepafopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608415a13db1c---46735541180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a867674f13f---93219721278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/tiravamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1431780647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-rivetti.it/userfiles/files/duniwigitesudisizusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwemfjhjk.friend-match.com/upload/files/57216904122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhs1978.com/clients/d/dd/dd8db5a278a7ad55a2ada34b8e38ebcc/File/84674537305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30007af38784ad8509cf201b99c95eee/zejigisalowesoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lompatjauh.com/contents/files/gokutimapepim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/wumoloweriseve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ns1d4tiedkcsac675u6ofbbg6o/69733692968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90792b3188dcb261538e7f626480302f/4517249649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1tj7kfmerilqb4g4khbmv193s4/6685359255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bc98ae58e---77017523283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/rarugikebemobarojidukod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb7684b84f83751a4f3384258712440a/rupozazotok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=download+game+wormate+io+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000dbbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3CD 17552 bytes
SHA-256: 92ec3f1d3d5c2a74a21db02b02848b97365befb6b04c934031509f04768f4dc2
font_02_sfnt_off000120d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D1 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 5c07f346283e69105c5d0cc8c673c50d20f49ec712545e730988d8b8b508bb39