Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d1def35dbb8f6ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-08 11:44:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 12372f8e26353eec420235a455ea1b14 SHA-1: 531ef237fb27ca73c5240d46b9e23e1c7c9a0ae4 SHA-256: 6d1def35dbb8f6ea26a17040ca6f08ffa0077bd91788ff45550a2dc9deaaca34
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document impersonates a cloud document lure, aiming to trick users into clicking on links that lead to malicious content. Multiple heuristics indicate this is a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, designed to distribute further malicious PDFs. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be133666f17---36248061657.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a51b9d9d6a5---sibosod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae7f277a9310bd6137919e27efad6c1e/14510614080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/vakevilasuxukamagatawidox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-cx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79352389816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1ebad092e61981694ad50d75ef67699/munivegotibofab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608706f9b3a3f---watomabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pablohernandes.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7247557af8b22fd6b26b6a7b439eb36/85801263374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/xosejik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908ecf879b1---50972071133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce0e2c6f267bd72f90a01b69c143699d/wexujupoxonaluwimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20m735epcj25q441tf3e5ekt2t/51891267436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb3b6bdf4fc---wodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/gebobijivubuzenipefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biothiennam.com/media/ftp/file/56183028791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3fdf0eddfb---35348480487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/22284100120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/fonanajabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740e92b7077---kuxugotovujotevopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/xulugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59dcee44d1f962ad000602c8546071c7/33798754470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esush3cc9epijuolumu7gds26j/91001878942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c123b41ea---58418999409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/zapizoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banlinhkienlaptop.com/userfiles/file/fudidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+upload+a+document+to+teamsPDF 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_off0000ec81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC81 18516 bytes
SHA-256: 5d31c094fe798fe5aa842b026ba297f11e40bee8ac0bb3ab2b1e1f9331094e5d
font_01_sfnt_off00011bea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BEA 16424 bytes
SHA-256: 4eb39ae64381c7fe19edff5f827a5f69db2a60491a951843f3ba809ceb7de06b
font_02_sfnt_off0001323d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1323D 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 4442fe6c84c1ac269afe067f4c4f339f258ed5f35d6d167fe9804239f7d0435c
font_03_sfnt_off00014ab7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1