Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c8ea79a20a9ee11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 11:31:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2be61c93888f6ae86f6fad36f8d8b45f SHA-1: 1ed2055de9ad31bf0cb6d41c219f944f9257910c SHA-256: 6c8ea79a20a9ee1188788596d96291fc1c633b8e2b9ba0da90e227ef9a623193
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zinnia+journal+%26+planner+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://yousefmaktabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6144652518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirindhorn.net/upload/File/pogijarasogigesoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b60fc8b74d---44888338133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ciesol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97621224626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specializedfacilitymgt.com/public_html/userfiles/file/dozide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ec6aa0fa77---supisikijivedajixolum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pzhjintai.com/upload/files/73650566735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobateracota.ro/mm/file/14702207346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/55170436304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everestlodgelukla.com/userfiles/file/pibixofotulevefaxiloxaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwninemile.com/uploads/files/koguvabusizirijoteziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahmayerlawoffices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/94962356362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72554e0hje9uqdci24ti4ne8mv/74026975281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dgtrans.co.th/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vulizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taemyung.com/data/upload/file/26671800848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimuselearningschool.aels.edu/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/tevotoromam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokosohk.com/files/fckfiles/file/81626811503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kereruvule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/76816998252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petrovsky14.ru/docs/files/xisewozakopilumije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceramvetro.net/userfiles/file/40805507888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nujhimachal.in/img/uploads/files/xamazedukedogajejinatam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhhyhb.com/uploadfiles/files/kajaxupifawipibafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/92592780845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osteopathe-montpellier-sud.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doretepasuravugetezulapas.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_off0000e6ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6EF 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 5bfa5853b7aadabe89488b116f8e082fa643f3781b5f40ba0aba5939ddadac38
font_01_sfnt_off00011456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11456 9896 bytes
SHA-256: e6907c3315eebc33a68bc8b48a4b84e8a403d5330abd62e0c6f1e13b349eb6ae
font_02_sfnt_off00012a26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1