Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c678e084e242545…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 08:05:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0446ab8b53e7a57f523927e743f5e94b SHA-1: 2f888cc8fd51d855e6fcdc80d37f8ef697057a0c SHA-256: 6c678e084e2425451d671a612112d7cf982cfa38266472471224af3b5123c4ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple external URLs, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs suggest a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://inprovitparaguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46049107306.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zkqzl.com/uploadfile/file///2021091101111587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hosotte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wopati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbma.org/files/fck/file/72410299539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/20154561702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dcca669094---32564236474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/89853769103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/fejimewapojerunixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/68834953401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ned.ru/uploads/files/50389512065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bf9e46771a---2014493988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partetesal.ir/data/file/misapadeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1cb6eb9f3f1592647910baadb3fa00a/55818149687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meijialx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajexobenosuwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadsoda.com/UserFiles/File/ralobobarigasaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/sogimexigesixexojunapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/wixelaruzoketewagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a23e91a70a---jamonedotebigibodiwevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southafricapools.com/contents/files/wunebadiletaxitosogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanruou.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/danebokexonesosan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelikonline.ru/content/Files/77550029702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehotelgateway.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/tevixakitiniweraxitemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/30004736833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=phone+hacking+bookPDF 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_off0000d8e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E5 18080 bytes
SHA-256: 129ca6c377314d1d7758f2ad3acec1e72f256c46b97d8c7ed63ceefff68a4315
font_01_sfnt_off00010842.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10842 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 77d51313f7d70478d531d23c4cf29e66f5ada7f9358cf2e227fa78c7273a0899
font_02_sfnt_off00011f7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F7D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1