Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c8073ef43855beb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 04:54:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1b751c38b25dcdce2a105f441287219d SHA-1: 8ccad29c3ef82cc5557b6d9908b7004d5acff4d7 SHA-256: 6c8073ef43855bebbea814dcdd98cc7e3f666f0c13a8592a5b27d1a3eddd17ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to distribute malware or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://cuakeobinhduong.com/upload/files/pimizakaguvarukadatijepef.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1lui7pk6okhnsn3odjma7hke4/22294735386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xenang-mitsubishi.com/fckupload/file/vubuwixozim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dekeluvawojisoluvut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://longhoang.vn/upload/files/53245131843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ec2dps75jl60b5eu8nosfat6f/jerogiwozugigapejiburaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9d4e78428---wufasexuwabokegobov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/kekiwezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/47446423507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97a730f3c5fa3212267bbead6c79ad83/fujinuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aad7233b433666df4f87052d01642a93/53585119686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160996da3f297d---496840451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bccde07c708---wawejafesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/8027473630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c89574b351---87768574391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9a14685dc---momep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946b1862efe---gukutigipabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/pikitubozefujolemuxojure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4049591248---39747909639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac392a60f4---54695969925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d33e962ddc6bb784a6478d5528944f2/27726397609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/gurelowuxakozezogiwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filatelianumismaticaumbra.it/userfiles/file/fimafapabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a173bded73e0e2705b53551fd044b0b6/medemutewowopobagavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/incqhibmhho74b94j8j2rjq4o0/31036578807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=top+3+cutest+puppies+in+the+worldPDF 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_off0000ef20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF20 10772 bytes
SHA-256: e7eeb346564fee71246a27aab0ee51d95aa029f747f84895f32203dfbe14f96a
font_01_sfnt_off000107f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F2 17272 bytes
SHA-256: 8c36f55de62d7114b38c6ed813ace7565b17afa6be37af1716b2d3f3df1d465b
font_02_sfnt_off0001352f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1352F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1