Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c8021b354b027ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 03:36:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7531283312502671f82624f0c2880db1 SHA-1: d21a65beabf2257651746e100348949a59e79441 SHA-256: 6c8021b354b027ba009abc544f460c786b55fdc4936505aad90001aa2b098575
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV and an ML classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious payloads or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://fireprovietnam.net/luutru/files/84117783708.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/zivabipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c7ae82d683---tiluduwakojoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stressmanagement-karriere.de/userfiles/file/4808594941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/jevupobanetuxasexigononoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarkar.ie/userfiles/file/90500624323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaox.com/v15/Upload/file/202198167397105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35670447050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galaxytraining.examinationonline.com/files/24669777149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/dajedejefidoselirut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613271761a860---23967414996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metafelix.it/userfiles/files/95193571393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/23013876364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b81ee3e2c2---navawupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chungcungoaigiao.vnpec.xyz/uploads/files/65319973511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundationkuzmanov.com/files/34895203500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtuozi.ru/sites/all/sites/virtuozi.ru/files/84391606622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://surupaceanu.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51861691790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinczeandlaszlo.com/upload/pabupabole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldapa.eus/files/galeria/files/fuxokajagimajera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanrun-it.nl/userfiles/files/66820131534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popeyebio.com/upload/files/81734784753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135226281fcc---samexulevomevebisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamarchesainterita.be/lamarchesainterita/imgdb/news/files/21914068399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413cc8b0827---74945008335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sadex.pl/fck/file/xiduvigovafexegibitod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=i+made+it+throughPDF 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_off0000bf22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF22 15604 bytes
SHA-256: f2ef42907f886ae19abf2abfdaec9f99002a8e38195ffdc0ac51976885989399
font_01_sfnt_off0000e73c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE73C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF53 10428 bytes
SHA-256: f634fba906e1db7a749d554bc07a67f72a97d69099ac1b190c82df979349b65c