Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d7476eeeaf25a0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 20:18:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a16a98014958603c90b695a8cea518b3 SHA-1: 4961068673021a432efa5162e0d5b248d0b6cf6f SHA-256: 6d7476eeeaf25a0cd03d316ac73c4944f50e130842152f4f3b2efdaa63f194b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210528210904.pdf
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3fb931b375---65962294786.pdf
    • https://fizjolech.pl/userfiles/file/notexasiperobuleg.pdf
    • https://ags-car.com/upload/files/nivenamatenasutufosunufi.pdf
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4605h1a9unnhbfnpvbo779pcbd/10884392650.pdf
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed22d185a7---13779162364.pdf
    • http://lifecare4all.com/upload/files/lutomibajebopafu.pdf
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0a50362a3---waleki.pdf
    • http://ctmmaximoravenna.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vomamul.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ae30ed903fa0fbdca0a6192fd6e3ecc/koker.pdf
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eff06a4967---vasezewamalogofiwo.pdf
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609867247772d---32963562991.pdf
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c7e8de499---94310429296.pdf
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4eb1f68864---42927599628.pdf
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/21839582204.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907dfea6cd3---20540174522.pdf
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2t015g039aseo16cfm01pdgsam/38362760147.pdf
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/reledopuves.pdf
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/54274975368.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a4beedda8---14570094770.pdf
    • http://master-sign.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/silufixames.pdf
    • http://iccarrentals.com/files/file/fepexobinujapofika.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=howl%27s+moving+castle+guitar
    • 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_off0000dcf8.bin
cfba70b43cdc06744d32b6542875c70a28bbf67f589c2a5954e7c2b95fe377bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF8 10848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f61d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF61D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010e2f.bin
16971ed4f52ba736f5ad84ecb00df135added7bd75a384ae63272964a43cfb54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E2F 16756 bytes