Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cf22b564a27c62e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-08-27 18:19:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f0c52eee76c3a6791f2e96c7b0bf49bf SHA-1: 1ee37ad9c41ccf03a0aa29641c8c4e8f05855b63 SHA-256: 6cf22b564a27c62e0b5655e68ca05f4c2ca5000dfa3704f2b5506ce0524e566e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, with several hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of a 'Download button' lure further suggests an attempt to trick the user into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/renivuveruwimele.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://venefoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42880212005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6016843392---25871122550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enfersalus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48302751616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewt.cz/res/file/fepafero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/8167200932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1c43dbc51---48398559963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cffb09a671---17598173045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/60837719943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d78a312d7c824a985bcf7f3396caf2e/newabupuvitedumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adc55e1edfbcc768381a270b51c24dc2/jokepuvaxodokixomimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/paxotomuramezajivigepife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e7d5cc97eb7becae80a4de57e4fcfc4/zozimaxodef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e3c3a6d792a0a35a1f49032ad28ca73/wunozenufubele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b19663282de5bcb5ec3dd2bb6e359b6/jurofagododob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/pegifisuzasuvozufozekadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ebc57ac2f9f78b2154d00ef64ec3d11/totikanigaruse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meesens.be/KrMee/Tekstverwerker/82720032137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/mewadigus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/54043933316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59571092349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lqjt6fcfspsldnnudb3vjs1hv2/vuzatik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/lobadutebiduguwupufonijof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=centroid+of+a+trianglePDF 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_off0000c363.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC363 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 69b933aad5c482169b23cffd92dd430c3c75f1d694e959e2975d4914be4d58c9
font_01_sfnt_off0000dad1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E3 19764 bytes
SHA-256: 0f74e0b965169be0d673bb8ae1e94a813f446c7fd98884edc1ebc2d832bd5d9a