Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c8008068e394259…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-06-22 13:41:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: db5b4de3932e9795795e41e800cf9d7b SHA-1: e6834e393bc777541d16df6a11ca80c0a44bc356 SHA-256: 6c8008068e394259255c99980ea240a2e8ec4fb84160dd976a4a3119311fa3b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malicious redirection attempt, likely leveraging spearphishing as an initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://chinazzjx.com/d/files/49873935473.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/luwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831b6e026df---taluvusabodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7348a7d2e2bd7226ad09ea7e1902ffbf/89894180089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e0996dde6b236c451e9bc6d791c148f/63365302276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woori-tour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_488214AFD5BF0AF5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c859cf52a4b---tuwozeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/bujizupunufitek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/zoligo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7c18decd0f---kulitasaginevixubuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7a8ccf4ec05d0d76478029b53904cea/disaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f646e85f7f---keretisupimedipigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/zovuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/gimuwivijanipifosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733fd497504---sesuvamiduzurakike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c60629730---vovorixuximixejemil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=name+tracing+worksheets+printablePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d4e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4E3 5612 bytes
SHA-256: 8aeb527965ea2fe0c9091f9472b44698cf6075484686460922529e1f7aeb1947
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7E7 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 08d872f345cc3f22bd2b6d4fc9047443688628a4da0475cce615f43f84536891