Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c81fef2ec8dbdac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

128.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:58:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7d89d1c9dbdf63c96140108734ed6ebb SHA-1: 94733a90d1504d16abfc9db4bd9bac48d5b3ed0e SHA-256: 6c81fef2ec8dbdac7046087f045dbf9edf30183591cbf94ca86b736c0bb7235f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or potentially malicious websites. The presence of external URIs and link farm patterns suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9899

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 http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1f36190303---wipix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://headlinesdinerla.com/uploads/files/96063903929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3311637683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinslock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/womufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/rizum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nagsa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91060845097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bernendorf.ru/userfiles/file/lefepufobiwamizatumewosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandientuchinhhang.com/upload/files/68419315070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761abf3510b---16437344182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lo78oqg2f02lhrqe2ko410nhak/sewitigodenokawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c217b9ef9---68520993785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161292eb72296b---31862344707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609497da148dd---nimelogajajiwofotesavibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8c1s024e96psonvvrdjgamud1/nutalajojinunuxeluna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/32304728586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de2d4c6be57---terulapuzuwelibesosefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d07ea83a9d---pabizusalobajixowudiwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901582622a7---mokasajetune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e69418f1ed052fef7efbc4d95f79a868/digusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210603003052358128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ec383c1c4---28035125612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac809d0b2b2---79273614147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d997451ef6e8e5d25111d2eb9e8cfeb1/56050093111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12cj5fcrvro6737krron03n4nm/89147140449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsonplastic.com/uploads/userfiles/file/xomigesexovasuwatuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobergamaschi.it/userfiles/files/wosubopuvit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=third+trimester+bleeding+pdfPDF 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_off00019130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19130 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001a947.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A947 10764 bytes
SHA-256: d374d38336521ef4b2906617052ca69163727a9be815160de35cdcd48abf3f92
font_02_sfnt_off0001c153.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C153 19408 bytes
SHA-256: 57572c523d401269d5c55807c96367f8b111f8a3a031e2075fe1d601126bd048