Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cf2dee42b61b997…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-08-23 14:48:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: d675878102cd2b300532934f69f5c4ad SHA-1: 56f033a2b31629c19e5acca4dd50f49bb71e80f7 SHA-256: 6cf2dee42b61b9974530d9e52f2c08783acaa9f386264777c3f89b1ff1929055
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://cecev.com/stockages/files/jimisifalujilutulogoku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/xadimurefaranaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1874e02996---20820256855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/zigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/saforuregexilif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73370eml9ffa4dk09bohdpt099/xuturemaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29414610542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerbreadvillage.org/clients/e/e3/e396b250b60561adcb946853f9f62e29/File/voluxozasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epponline.com/mentorfinancial/page_images/file/22900451528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jdjcnc.com/upfolder/e/files/20210805124242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4931f3f08---10635110738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40f2f40a1f03398879613327e7a6b05b/xololewasasenaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaintik.org/files/galeria/files/denasabiwulefegokuwirujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cravaluos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19665457512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tznjl.com/userfiles/files/fabivura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c99b48afd50---65755599918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever-pioneer.com/upload/files/63807933353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullgame.hu/uploads/files/44807914325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f28d3745c4---kumekonaxetetizabuxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089dad930a69---moxebofolazixoluwobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aa180923a4f61af4502e902484ed915/sexasepoviked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/21301835030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/buzuxupozuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://draftingfloorplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muxixizazikajixipavejaruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+blood+from+car+seatPDF 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_off0000d554.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD554 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED66 15832 bytes
SHA-256: dafa229e6de4cf332430fab1d88196cc0219bbbeb41650bb54fe28a84d0a4eeb
font_02_sfnt_off0001160e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1160E 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 6cfb4edd0204efc15dc2ff0319726384818e34e22c4ca781c1ed7aa9e597435f