Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d532ebb80a447ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-14 12:14:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8442b183f8b5ff109e0ae1cf836e02de SHA-1: 72a90ae9dd85b37582d7936c3139a0e7d09b9143 SHA-256: 6d532ebb80a447ca5f97710da13f65805a3902b77bd37c10f1c4a2772b2e945e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1553.004 Mark-of-the-Web Bypass

The file is a PDF document that has been flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to potentially compromised websites and includes instructions to disable security software. This suggests an attempt to bypass security measures and potentially deliver a phishing payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d53nc7jcncksn0gendap6educi/viwigugawaw.pdf
    • http://pappteam.hu/userfiles/file/75041986531.pdf
    • http://aviafond.ru/userfiles/file/vulokowatokufavalodis.pdf
    • http://ecoevopublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/denojajes.pdf
    • https://pisangmanis.com/contents/files/xotafofeperapoduk.pdf
    • http://doradcyprawni.com/images/pliki/rezagamigemazufetobuw.pdf
    • http://halongwave.com/userfiles/file/kogawilar.pdf
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394747cf89c---jikikito.pdf
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/dagixosuvagifuzipugozulut.pdf
    • http://kapalishakti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sexisirifogaxikezaf.pdf
    • http://ediliziaunoaventi.com/userfiles/files/60544112412.pdf
    • http://justsayhi365.com/uploads/file/nazosajagufotabad.pdf
    • https://limsurdua.com/contents/files/5019616258.pdf
    • https://vanchuyenduongsat.vn/upload/files/gutuwez.pdf
    • https://ladida.asia/sporlegen/administrator/imagetempfile/mejuxofoxivokivis.pdf
    • http://kbinteriery.cz/userfiles/file/wowokemizag.pdf
    • http://halmar.info/userfiles/file/tikunegerinigoboxusu.pdf
    • https://kemxoithanhhang.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/jotudi.pdf
    • https://pilot-nav.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40511595448.pdf
    • https://behbehaniprojects.com/uploads/files/68276133297.pdf
    • https://kimcert.net/E/file/99215661245.pdf
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ec533b7588---31651556747.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=the+was+a+problem+while+parsing+the+package
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3dd.bin
ef3506994ae1a1ac4c26766a6d3914f7231440dbe7c7617c2c2cc0d27de2e551
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3DD 11104 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed70.bin
0114ead9b03527d4b4564e8c36d604ec6bcad6171c18dc22c10e38843fe0f4f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED70 17396 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000119c5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119C5 16792 bytes