Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c9ffc8e23777587…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-11-07 03:15:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 586fd2581a3e1639799e50c1db24d1b1 SHA-1: 0c7be8f34d4594a31f70914962ac4e8cd6a94d49 SHA-256: 6c9ffc8e237775878a62f63e1d4e00ff5ba994acc8c5af325c1cb7f440ad512f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://stefani.cz/fck/file/sifozopezetumojupaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anabakorea.jp/userfiles/file/kolomewew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55696911177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinko-tw.com/UserFiles/file/6802520669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b96d9a429de81e25a959669cb6adab5/noxazarozupibozime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog/file/girovugisiloboveriwimemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsuiteru66.com/userfiles/file/kofaxokuporanovexara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/karulijaguliwoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innobiztour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20211019_EC470F7905484C05.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsprojekt.eu/userfiles/files/99584536383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parquet-cortes.fr/data/Files/95494750400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb-hospital.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/55032610564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef9887ad4d---9504070577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatceramics.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lofusonexodorejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lnk-creation.fr/upload/file/vozotikabikap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/serajuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfoodntea.com/dataroom/file/7420576494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.horakgolf.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46752977994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.hssanesteban.cl/files/ribajakizijudagudutibid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/51966666150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestofbeer.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kegolajobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161650cd970515---58418525799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5k4cv5m7jj39gp4mc0hdiononq/depiwipavoxupuxozalife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1617059584ef35---71800305516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/warukubawegiserexokexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/5906627228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/HTGXzuRVGb4/uplcv?utm_term=the+meaning+of+sPDF 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_off0000d34c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD34C 10380 bytes
SHA-256: f9e1722b24d9b26e9309b174f2d4b7aa20d987534cb248a90a638923c0b16590
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA8F 16540 bytes
SHA-256: 45015263e28dbf00792e0fa83ae0fb9123af5110209f191c00797c49350166ef
font_02_sfnt_off000101b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B0 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 4b8fe018d0d25f45778383b2ea7faf0dc0b7b2f799f1e7878ce6bbad8a5c7672