Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c94351a0bb0489c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 09:20:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 17b5394c6c5ca87bb78026e3ab99bc32 SHA-1: a0b7798f34ed4d3a73a99f3366022cac2e998231 SHA-256: 6c94351a0bb0489c93163cda66d3fc5bd0a74a8d9a52bfae9fbc5d69f9e49a8e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable domains. The document body is unreadable, but the structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/gunegug.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d510d854c06---dalebilizemiromi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0eb736f63a---jojokuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6effae4779---namojanozil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/masonutelarizojovebona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609077124dc93---lagajibogesurewudunadit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dursunguney.com/userfiles/files/zosomemelitemedije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074766ca44c2---58282575857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2be763dc7a---xozovejenovigotegogukun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/203180799fde519053b05ea3cde7b96f/dafobuvenubefagilimomugep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160955f0b982f7---ladidazamodeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5934b93faee67fd835eef0133cd5eaa9/79488556415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flomogroup.com/upload/files/8834315765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/zebakuxotozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/simagurisen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/bojobujiselu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d953c6a71a6---89237362108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caa3231d70b---98967585347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607047ee4aba4---15430287820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98dbc56b1f---kenikatazatudaferelaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f66b90e6b---24315891929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903e4d9938d---63565565514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e2cc817ec---xazorelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36035275492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghioroiu.ro/sites/default/files/file/76581011843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/leligoganudovaxazakarip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabrikangka.com/contents//files/taradabaruvedid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+read+a+architectural+scalePDF 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_off0000f14f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF14F 10540 bytes
SHA-256: ae32d31da645eb973b28f8db9bc4f151ec1c60b98f4dba222bf01b9c0835172b
font_01_sfnt_off00010977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10977 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012189.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12189 17948 bytes
SHA-256: 9756060a4d0258ec5942fa3e4936ff5f1a1ebbe109d4d29fe543ae5d3ac86b0a