Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c7b2e90db095ca4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 05:25:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2fcffc53b5d9b3650e4bd04190d49924 SHA-1: d02f41618ba5c8344010d53ed754c791f47d87fe SHA-256: 6c7b2e90db095ca43931fdac5aa43a2c8d273535baf4f64e21c8bd4baa203554
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+recover+lost+data+from+android+internal+memory PDF link annotation
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/nezoxugonenibumiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matkinhantai.com/luutru/files/saxoleketetasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/xagirelaweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72070408637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4245659568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratodua.com/contents/files/19997733129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eecff86006bb580cc988ec7dc795c50b/nupokulaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipsphotographystudio.com/10869701603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161420dbfd558e---73235277926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d888b43d4---wiwikanawebodidazilemij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--sanitrprofi-p8a.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/80927459536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bursaceyizgelinlik.com/images_upload/files/99032025727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huanghecables.com/d/files/pogofomodumazonuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hejia-ele.net/upload/35396416022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiostocchi.eu/userfiles/files/24678609592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a82100297---6969688303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gedayapi.com/userfiles/file/xanevatininolizemof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilatheshow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tixotejopevegej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atvatextile.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wevatapidodirefipazivogir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohadalegistrocbarter.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/norivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heureka-cz.eu/files/56428095213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maulich.vn/attachment/files/67379034868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/kebemusivodenevivowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finadev-groupe.com/userfiles/file/64523906477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000edcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDCB 18436 bytes
SHA-256: aa718f417a53c63c63883d3e0469f80d4ff63c0a6074e70a57030a70a4f3c883
font_01_sfnt_off00011df5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF5 10892 bytes
SHA-256: bd3162738e8221b01b2833e382fd1f2610ba3ffb1f9179837b47bde0874634f8
font_02_sfnt_off00013736.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13736 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1