Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c79577383aaecf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 14:54:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e8ec5c5cd248399caf55f296e484b153 SHA-1: df430057adf7c2e6ce33cb2a41c60d06a7133c7f SHA-256: 6c79577383aaecf6c4a0e675f67561d6baf3985954f99cca4bd8e62446698f07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to numerous external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lead users to phishing or malware-hosting sites. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS uploads points to a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

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 https://www.willmarshelter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/befogez.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/zelefumixofivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poganyvolgyi.hu/userfiles/file/muwawamolusorepabusemep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clear-es.net/yamituki-n/uploads/files/nolabusikejiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wib24-admin.de/uploads/file/kagovugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ef2bbcf2131aae0b1db8e814bfd779e/28922274514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e4249abba---68130881666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stelmart.ru/userfiles/file/datomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/suzixikifefelubefaxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/64318463021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louisefarmersmith.com/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gowulemogukujozilov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marasintl.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/zibipawutulune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vzglavniki.net/data/file/juridirapufeximolukurisov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5udua.com/contents/files/57374656059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puginternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11589428735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/83042879939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milkexim.ru/imgeditor/file/26244188460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/xobibenelawidulubudater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8edc4da009427846f9def82363c2d032/jemigenovugixobodajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhchemicalsfeed.com/upload/files/74376352525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c3fa8b6880---52250083074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girc.ncue.edu.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/muwalelugaxumapivelafufap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargobull.cz/res/file/6290730236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a4b186fcf---tusunas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=android+technologies+listPDF 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_off0000f715.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF715 19176 bytes
SHA-256: 18a7e99d880d5a6c129b8517179aa983a2053b87e0363cc0be9963db48057795
font_01_sfnt_off000128c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000140dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140DD 10468 bytes
SHA-256: de138ab0dafbe4bcaf606e5f0de3367b207fdeb9df668f3291c2c331fbfe73b4