Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c727c186b85a12d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-10-03 02:11:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f1a380620dd6b4ffb2cfb847f8cb1f19 SHA-1: e9fbdbecadb9094da644ba9ee28cfb4f6986641b SHA-256: 6c727c186b85a12df1bdb0d8b54885f5ae314136833e91988dcfe22316d8ab96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic and multiple unknown reputation URLs strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support the malicious nature of this document.

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 http://abbeytraining.net/userfiles/file/70008386898.pdf
    • http://blossomtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_12AB69AC720E8D5C.pdf
    • http://twgo8.com/uploads/base/files/202110020327201776.pdf
    • http://www.gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23611560634.pdf
    • https://www.autopsrus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21431584272.pdf
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16158ca537a9b6---62874199605.pdf
    • http://edukoc.net/userData/ebizro_board/file/35893696047.pdf
    • http://avatars.ru/userfiles/file/91366338902.pdf
    • https://pepsima.biz/files/file/kejafimitojageduked.pdf
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/dosepiwiromotinofuke.pdf
    • http://onlinepravenconsultant.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/33878867916.pdf
    • http://hagelkonzept.com/userfiles/file/xapefuk.pdf
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/99158109590.pdf
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/45519971109.pdf
    • http://nemdanangpho.com/uploads/2021-09-01/images/files/kigexiwigeninikidudes.pdf
    • https://pristineleather.com/userfiles/file/32706591993.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicodama.it/userfiles/files/mokimenorirunozutemod.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/jevatasilusedimodo.pdf
    • http://baoveantam.org/upload/files/97586303864.pdf
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10ee21c7083a398a4281574c115183e7/padutumobekizos.pdf
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34c61fdb3f54680ef3271e4c2f5a967d/soguxuginiridigaliv.pdf
    • http://hondaototanan.com/upload/files/nefebu.pdf
    • http://versobrokers.eu/userfiles/files/83775883774.pdf
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/lowuve.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=convert+to+xps
    • 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_off0000b2f3.bin
faa880143315327b86dba1a7c553cd43f66919115f052473d1f21b448588db1f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2F3 10144 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9d6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D6 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e1e8.bin
e3f9ee76a6e0c88099b113397343c0039f6cae1159d1878b83fc4b69249dab9a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E8 16676 bytes