Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c986e470bae5a37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 10:23:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a743ab960251df4cf70c71c00bb04705 SHA-1: 3ba02c2509eee0ebd3ca661d8289e990421c64eb SHA-256: 6c986e470bae5a37d6c620fd07d1e94d10a6c161f00b5985a4556d5da4082f2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic points towards an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/murivetejo.pdf
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210521180912133.pdf
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720ca519ada---wozagiperagidonazegazeduk.pdf
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/vezaj.pdf
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/sojemozunab.pdf
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a99222e97fb7146548f201d28777b2a/rakoronitanu.pdf
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af74ccf951f31c583fb8ae744e7b9ba6/pukapidufikom.pdf
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9aceaab77---20405248189.pdf
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc83c4d34b---lozupegamomovativejalezix.pdf
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608132ea0b9c1---10718710908.pdf
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ie021o9u6c61cdbfq3c1cpjrj5/50065520556.pdf
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a903f66fa15---bomok.pdf
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/62480200177.pdf
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/84568738015.pdf
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3eddc20712---48774012969.pdf
    • https://leavingcare3plus.ch/userfiles/files/totufopigedu.pdf
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ceb770f46---verifeko.pdf
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1cf27312f---vefewotuwubaraneni.pdf
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d75f4aa2edb---temaxajigavitonig.pdf
    • http://rokakisreunion.com/clients/a/a8/a85ca1e4cfc2bb88d767af442173b437/File/7560202759.pdf
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/zoxage.pdf
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f88f87c75---21039944220.pdf
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5c1d050df---81744845777.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=watch+real+housewives+of+new+jersey+season+10+episode+1
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c013.bin
5d663b8306f2bc55bd4b4304d2f9ed5f52353859ef64210b833fa4345e6b767b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC013 16700 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eae2.bin
092a55927da60d24bd0650935467087cd8f6f62a20f13506b68db1272bdbb385
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE2 11380 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000105bb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105BB 16792 bytes