Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d4416388dabad15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:07:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 8e8c7cb2c12f639a2918ca47c59d22fd SHA-1: 427404d354c62f3f144eb85f0de7e3516ad17640 SHA-256: 6d4416388dabad158a8c09948c98f150a225df834365661e52ed7366fd4a9c99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not fully analyzed due to obfuscation, indicates potential for further malicious actions such as downloading additional payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/bagujomezijuvawusolawir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba4cd7eff3---doxexexugiwevegemavorepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaskinfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b798c9f9e2af69c3a5b950a06e4ade8e/File/8158930825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyermo.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/35211943291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d86e442c4ec8292f1060a0082894977/78374089137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b850831933---93967555931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2e38fee12d---fukun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landroverbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68283745328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4mm4nq3rfq17htp34aa539keq/94581313818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a8d91a62ce5365cdb3ec67a273dee7f/15769016552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6537de9f46566c663ff5408dd0a3c1b/39222418491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1f1fp8kvuv3jlp416kuqhog6u/58979020071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823c83b8a95---varurizexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicamistasnc.it/file/29509096776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/safobufubejum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57696fc5532f22813d52e6e771eea0fa/81270208650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/vakowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/sixobini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxfirma.com/userfiles/file/xeguvunuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--hjrnskadeakademien-mtb.se/userfiles/file/xubepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourtruck.be/upload/ckeditor/file/kuwimuganokimazakuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9cd29afe7a---metupezajovawemimuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gandolfiarchitetti.com/userfiles/files/82381038727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dd9079441a---7001180244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160980c4f0af99---5235337325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=community+medicine+with+recent+advances+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_off0000cc8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e49d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE49D 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 8a509ebe2c41ec913c0501b864da57d4c53511993657089929b77f61bdc8d1e5
font_02_sfnt_off000111f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F1 11236 bytes
SHA-256: fff83d68432699479b1c399b7ec3df0ba3223a4268221cdee9279c1661e359e5