Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c8fba94f0ac08a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-07-08 00:34:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 27882ef3bfbbbe37b09eae153493b301 SHA-1: a633d34e55bc3054ec5998737c928114ee2ec2c7 SHA-256: 6c8fba94f0ac08a595d27d78a214e917bf4f0823c412408b83436c78245ab0eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links per host suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

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 https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58154140461.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/tuwibusidinilovukoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/dirirafumal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/kolimurimugedamixisijafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f8797cce16b9b986f0b482cffb438fc/86086672165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/90108417239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa2b99f5cf---rujepojepomez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/miwiperajonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uism64709nflh740bn85as2o8c/doveparotapasafuwefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/jurowupazobixilogiviwevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609066c72c633---98851232387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48337355662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/202163124979204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/josuo6njqj28arrkop121buq39/35475260774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b69c6b5aebb---38493839672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210513/file/tilizufalejutafiwavusig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607666245b826---vagawakoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44217253203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/zejakub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942c2ddefb4---kozikuvufexegagib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ed3c72cbb---vabufaduxuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de7eada244---27378430413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/gojarot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da1dd98ef4f---zawepowaturuvipelivivuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098520f2070e---puluzobonevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d332c799e---76377945121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=xbox+user+manualsPDF 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_off0001025c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1025C 17612 bytes
SHA-256: 17edc0c505e5abd82e110f978d2331c5db369264cfdd7f9a836cd472a267e1d2
font_01_sfnt_off00013068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13068 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001487f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1487F 10428 bytes
SHA-256: f05d92d5f2ce9b3b6396a48134d4a44f07f30fcecb467697b9bdc880f1f89781