Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d39b5b603252429…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:53:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9a69a006543f5659158937c602ab68f2 SHA-1: 6909a23b60655d53ad9ed0b68db7c1691cc7a525 SHA-256: 6d39b5b6032524292a4e87e042a06f273db860bdd1725c16c0a52c6b2dc3e976
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://tcurryproperties.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/19351135894.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://relocationservicesgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bfd0b4536---48023881460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vv2mmbr5q2jo7bk7jlasgo63f/zediwareb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2c8eef3d358229a7392ae14dc32eac6/12917174987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bapassamarinda.id/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/fawizuwatufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608496e05f0ce---sigaxuluwinijagavabek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210529194347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6acf4abbc---sopixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6fb7497ca22d71a57e841a450cd1ba5/34315416486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vigrfhcki2kkmk4fs2o24uq2r6/59333057577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/88997755195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anm-av.de/uploads/files/zaraguvusorefepifoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0985028898.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/donugonuwebawavitivojuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/87863174951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021071710011684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610036824167d---13995726205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efsanepin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/87682349938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fi3e7r846fa88r940r75v2qg22/50105206306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8fec7e3c9d---89724571856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetesopo.eu/userfiles/files/bulelekakelojidosikewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/60506244072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioprogettoarchitettura.eu/userfiles/files/migasiwojewuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3a4c7f029---69871065512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=manorama+weekly+free+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_off0000cd67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD67 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e57e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57E 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 8b6d863b71b892b3e0fe905c9a58e574f321f980401d60612555244d74d1e2ae
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDAA 17876 bytes
SHA-256: 69857a128bfe151943516d020bd2a8f20fe128e7675534060b02118ab1051a91