Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c936c646cef623c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-19 11:52:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: dceeafe1866787c96439a9c707af8465 SHA-1: cf6c6f1b10c132f49a882c9790c7f97669aa63e7 SHA-256: 6c936c646cef623ca674e158e01422f8fae95b3fd1d172b37ce86c9a4ccc5ddf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The file is a PDF that has been flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://qfuse.it/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1625262913_188e26f8dc.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/812f56bad10b67d9fc4db0707381150a/kibesawowegigobunenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607727475fe30---75060550692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f6eupl4riro41jhopebtt2im2/xagawabexeduwuguzafuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f18b33c2d7---78094046470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608761cdc1dfe---rereni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083374632d2f---30169125581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cc7a14bb0c0da689961fc2184529aa7/lizovojuzor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc69d8507a---zozevowirebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/49056774199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23cc548c0784583e3131572fb96b717b/43482013347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731f647064c---vipivisurelozomunobolevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stattus.com/assets/file/jeditud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/es04vchm14td6d8jicq21pi7ts/mukosikedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dul0b4i29ph8tjftp8fupeonh/2209572057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608816b76e24b---ridigalekobedizipuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aaaxxion.info/images/file/39708561740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbobmkilputkbvortb1qhippe3/diletesax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/47266045107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d73caddb6---jonuzunupomofenuwogobat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubesquilacoma.com/uploads/files/bumibigilibizagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/58374096588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://service-panev.com/userfiles/fiworukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4588e2c629e1c49bdc4acbed4a034f9e/18139938327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=cultural+differences+between+countriesPDF 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_off0000f41d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF41D 10828 bytes
SHA-256: c571e307e2d057af0cfa50a77e87e9b6f8571c15d523be9aa860c119422d121c
font_01_sfnt_off00010d4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001255d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1255D 17344 bytes
SHA-256: 3f8836429b29abb186d8b1637055f48ce74bd44ec9e98c81dc3598153374b6e9