Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c700a96e5ce2841…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 06:31:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 472ca22a2ff2d0e9dd6beda003a15744 SHA-1: 4e96f7d49dc31ca67c5dc90968888327b81c34ae SHA-256: 6c700a96e5ce284160ffcf55d18ea6b3863aed78177319da1e2d59d7efb62d7f
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 WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138f658d4a99---88081856796.pdf
    • http://youzedu.com/ckimages/files/20210905041921710208.pdf
    • https://ipssecurityconsultants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69767729745.pdf
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/zaxenosumavasevage.pdf
    • http://nextlab-semi.com/files/fckeditor/file/71800885059.pdf
    • https://www.sherpachristain.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25989345656.pdf
    • https://magicdiscoradio.com/userfiles/file/45218224851.pdf
    • https://krygina40.ru/UserFiles/File/powulo.pdf
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e020545ec906417e3db21094e553f971/sadukadagexesozaw.pdf
    • http://ap116.ru/userfiles/file/podivodejogibazi.pdf
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/xebiwe.pdf
    • https://jotekonybakterium.hu/userfiles/files/45614693147.pdf
    • https://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91274246719.pdf
    • http://asacnfservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wobunisolelivetar.pdf
    • http://scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26427822194.pdf
    • https://bilegt.mn/userfiles/files/guvazijifajususonegiba.pdf
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b0359323d---gimafewapowez.pdf
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f171cbd901---68222802762.pdf
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98091681119.pdf
    • http://kroonzuivel.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lekipuve.pdf
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/zujagibawo.pdf
    • https://bloomeng.com/uploads/kuwige.pdf
    • https://bomnuocebara.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/21503790488.pdf
    • http://mayphatdienngocquang.com/media/ftp/file/mukomu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=android+companies+in+chennai
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d82b.bin
ffc13d99ae69e00fd33ba6cfc67c9716fac133dcf31ee86bae5ac17b06503812
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD82B 17792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001067d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1067D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011e94.bin
5117333d8a44ef758b57ca563e64e9bb03fc727b45183fbd8a605bed455f3b2b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E94 10616 bytes