Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d110d510530ac93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-07-22 01:28:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 395c52033fc05801efaa6b958388538c SHA-1: b24e55c7ed5fae999949d53e7583d8e0e2e5594b SHA-256: 6d110d510530ac93da42d2d31ef6f5cadb7f846f069927d62bbf14330412f622
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/27094848148.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210518121656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjce1thl6dd58k58k2bpe5t5u6/lipafuzefokizive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o233iaf98mnqggputbu4lmuha6/kivovaforoguwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monographie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5074122126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210517235255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160ad71805cbd0---42297992670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a687855d9bb---pawodunuzidoxajuriti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/91974337582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc4819488c9---33893834067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f9f7472ec---viworidoparogolofizupux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/vimebifurumisomemofapuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-021.com/userfiles/file/20210630132414_z2unla.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74d5a1efc1ade1a4b8a6323f4b57b611/10953930444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/zomoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hd295k1lkuhrr8sfuhrlm3o9lp/laxagozefufusada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcdfb9babca97eef5a1cb79963baa138/pomujisaxaxuxekeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7a02f441f6223a9cfb3546ea234e242/vobujuwidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f942bce28d12df42e58702853b1a8856/pupuxopujomojeborasamaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91d5d7bdccbac691637e02acb2443cc8/86423621441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/dezevapazoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovodatar.hu/userfiles/file/62801823081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/93526485099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bc6c4cc858eb93fa870abfe9524c48b/68315740072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=lone+wolf+and+cub+sword+of+vengeancePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fdad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDAD 17400 bytes
SHA-256: 57e16b055c486c230a9c45686e389129232cf7c99e5c1e421274f8ace7049904
font_01_sfnt_off00012ad6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD6 2572 bytes
SHA-256: d92135bdbab78c7f0e8f55ceecb78d248af7cbb61c83bed397af530064658840
font_02_sfnt_off000135f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135F6 10812 bytes
SHA-256: efb6033e697ff822c33d4807231ebdc34dff6ac57d491cb8cd02c0993856b82e
font_03_sfnt_off00014ede.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1