Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cfc7d4866367b42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 14:36:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ff709e8755d1faca7aa1263e2e030c56 SHA-1: 639d9d630c15321c20fcb234aff098d23c490bf2 SHA-256: 6cfc7d4866367b42de5058248bf90c55b1a9acf4ed278efeefada30f950b3b2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://westtech1963.com/clients/d/d4/d4250bc21dcbbf02d7f9bc68df143add/File/8516929109.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://prime42.ru/userfiles/files/webow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekitchendesignstudio.org/uploads/files/rukavexesatef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da77b2260ec---zekexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b14952fdd---34287527554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d623579e21f50adc287e961be47b457d/82596483343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/fonikesefebozupaladarowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/1093068770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka23.ru/upload/m/zodozobajurove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleel.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9s9jh26na9fdvp843tps4q320m/4744585785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/88226625402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83fc3851612f7c039112d7b52dfcc6c5/dofezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtrak.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67840745446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120ffa621ff5---23834942717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbb11a882f---dulupexanilori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8b5f1c598---pupomodevupofulirede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xingyeknitting.com/userfiles/files/18347955838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77ccdd42cd98f201beacd2708fd8407b/xawokekaxekivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d3df64f6a---99632402966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cevhertemizlik.com/userfiles/files/27805839274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiamberardino.it/userfiles/files/5526770102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avantagesapp.com/uploads/files/dazagumokovifowapedobeweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e4a80cf45a---nusar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromavials.com/d/files/18921915598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=convert+jfif+to+pdfPDF 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_off0000daee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAEE 10344 bytes
SHA-256: ccc7f35d99b2e0be2025adb0708a08a980c98b520be5f4867c9a95ea63bd5c16
font_01_sfnt_off0000f262.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF262 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A74 17456 bytes
SHA-256: dd33f7aba080c4e1a5ec07b956f068ecec7cbe93e5396984d8752ce06d9c5747