Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c841e7abd40fc7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 22:44:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 719dd69fd2bf07a02c06605f847ca6bd SHA-1: 5e1244ae178982c1c7451db30b90c11887c94239 SHA-256: 6c841e7abd40fc7d4644e74f19459743f57caa572f0d75a2dcdf0ea72fe976bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress installations. The embedded URLs are designed to lead users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://cowmoo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kopupiledutawafosira.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b77ac0a58e---29702508092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5c40899810---9575864222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0baf1af592264ae8a37ef31b1973c97d/pozofazuxijubisoloxosetow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uir7uhba2bn853p1bbnttdrgng/muzofetalojamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vnvfuh7cn5q4138m9s9h057sjo/rezari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/genux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consol.hu/images/uploadedimages/file/jajipurilavokuloli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/87911895335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e26c1650671893a108625fff9b806760/witibowamulovun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/majivipib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608962a87de7a---tebakapaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daa3139c3aab9c9c06ebd025dde54e3a/34090575487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13h8absaan7shgmplf4vt43tvn/57516351951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609578adb54c8---94951914178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0a390f1b4---39222061988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4cd55e0e2---dojuzurowosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/wurelaramukefejanixujexir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafe-malaysia.com/contents/file/xaxukoxopogixufevemar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5ef6850739---52143398023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1ad7141e13---22414216839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/36381242780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myboydfamily.com/clients/7/7f/7f513a2250c12de81a70a6735749c289/File/51923552336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/58372443209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160923ac1cf6c0---14172109422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/20013909359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=7+days+strength+of+concrete+as+per+is+codePDF 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_off000108b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B6 10920 bytes
SHA-256: d2f443343fd676f622b6702f37786ff1c6a1da5ac8ab68cfe304bbc2bf3eed5a
font_01_sfnt_off000121cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000139de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139DE 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 486b42fe5202970ac102ec41ea20e1f215f5d1898aaa8e26e628d8be76d380ab