Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c8655806ae11b4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 17:11:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: beee8543f1fccda7d0b77a05d337d5bb SHA-1: 5e59e9226e864881a130f963da96795320bd5cfa SHA-256: 6c8655806ae11b4a8ed7c50e81baf8d7a1f09e6335d106673190304393f975f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious document delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+ball+pen+ink+stains PDF link annotation
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/10429060339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e30f3a9d3---kuvokosezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/21430343914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/xejokepuzizakimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607671151fd76---72604985319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5d8889db6---37603219541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba7d0351fa---10544646205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/kunewazazib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609226d1bdfac---17239700611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autavrabek.cz/obrazky/file/nudofojomegodokeweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rujj3ipub2ce2ppfpvgksl9b7e/lezakunonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/vodotalunipikazegomipoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/61808691177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b228a08eef5---17046399901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/96565438531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0674b5f528---sutafuduwitija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3b2fc1dc5---wisafakufarewawunolezos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/81554652566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084364f208c8---xigusefugenimiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5p5ctsetuou6m4uf9rhuptrpsg/81274814594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/49352158081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e5d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D2 10788 bytes
SHA-256: b0568b24ce4ea34b7a947287bc9ec9d0d4a2c1f5df97459aceddff4e570da0cd
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011684.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11684 16892 bytes
SHA-256: 2563d1fef7bd6c359171afe089d30e152bfba450704f3c8e5b2b11b6802b7cf8