Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d08d7d7c61c8bdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:00:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 18fc7d81b569bf8f8416bae71b70ff40 SHA-1: a5366c74d5a37e02616ab7a7920f282c5c48d0ab SHA-256: 6d08d7d7c61c8bdb2be7b756c3535d801a62a4872e44f13047fb3a6d4daadbea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these external links to deliver a secondary payload or conduct phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=yedid+nefesh+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc7ed2878a---jididazumetiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trlgpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c404ab6bec7---46877505838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immopolignano.lu/images/lopet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8dc927a8b6ad2c1eaac0b992bd54ab3/gowoxofiwexuwokudaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f99ae7c9f55d77f2ebf5098577693b70/14320196952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/616035477611a2549a077d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d1ca3367e---ramirijofaxuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b566f95e278---napifugotipofuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geasit.it/userfiles/files/92539237663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b187eaf9d---suxuviza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70dd8a0040e527f16d960b4ecbd2b45c/dolixome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cupanghitam.com/contents//files/jotet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovery99.com/userfiles/file/13486945247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubelikes.com/ci/userfiles/files/58008138154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5dcc4c69ae04950589a9251e7adac8d/gatasuvegulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever-pioneer.com/upload/files/80075575871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/ziwepirezuzejazadeloxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37324600944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26b0b055b3---20994092874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyediajandekotletek.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/71376160393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilienjrubin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/36216480564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panel2conso.com/userfiles/file/kikiwufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c9a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BD 10052 bytes
SHA-256: 12ea611bf5d72011d56a895a095a68fc4dc67792714dcb9c548df871954044bd
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F6 20136 bytes
SHA-256: a4ba023c2c83b3cc09eeaa0aef37d423b65734e3585738a8d6262e780b11b371