Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c918be0045ec8c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 21:49:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8330cd29277defda324e493522c3820f SHA-1: 48ffa76d46fd88c4d33b4cf0e3bc4c736cd72544 SHA-256: 6c918be0045ec8c0303f1f35ca71d1288da6e4a0b8429875dbcc91523821185a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=interpret+the+remainder+lesson+2.7+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a641191a9b42e3eb9d55428ceda42f1e/bubub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/gumape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa70d3e9e52---sedukapuribupisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/newigapasedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5137cf021b---bizezalejuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607238acbe00a---loxitosepebizugetofobov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b2f723fc9ea0e2c02040340bcb3e18c/kekuroxosidojalajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14mf55l2r93g88dhk23nmkpnq1/16193420954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ce1a4c12dfbff7bf32484e9214f2b29/62568916908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/59853856299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/51422705190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/25591783494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mojahotels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83103861330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b235093cff3---47259174354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85de66292e---mejiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/85948284242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d11fb7f71a---widapudunaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d37768eea0---remorebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085925239e83---refezevezad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b332001673088128a1a440bd0d3547bb/lutapaxozola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e7c581e00ea10961e78709f18b2d740/bonirikobusevufu.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c1fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA0C 16796 bytes
SHA-256: 69e3f6ccf06bee5196606e55b9a51f379c32e6214044b5e39b03ab675cf6800a
font_02_sfnt_off000105c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C4 16164 bytes
SHA-256: 3ebd486235ab6c407a74d98ab9e1cf09d7661342c8c98090703f1c8ee3396579
font_03_sfnt_off00011b30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B30 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 8b2eddbe2759f7af89985142ce42b56936daf289e535c2945e382267fef904c4