Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d8fc6d062bb15a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:22:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4aa7590bc5a41ae3b19518074c355f44 SHA-1: e7d387ddaadce692d9e57192c6ea7dcebdede25d SHA-256: 6d8fc6d062bb15a7acb4ff25edeb608fe0c238bd56575e3d8ea60c3e66cce192
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to various disposable hosting sites, many of which are compromised WordPress uploads. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/29657158890.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://podimercrm.com/img/files/64196196855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/xefemeluximewovekuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/zuferig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/53460752447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etpatatietpatata.com/userfiles/files/tinoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/9117008870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uv9acg5l7rs61mo9eob5k56aq0/taxavagoxizirazarobamofuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/16536886565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35615639ee---97598977118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingceremoniesbybev.com/clients/72651/File/83253088287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160891ca1ee02c---vabojawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f150fa07d7---43851470573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/ligixoxorijedig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f82c2eda529---8154327777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/57130755029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mf5tepjmc5o4qa514htke2oj62/motuviwadomejoril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh62.com/clients/7/77/7764523e397120ad9b09b1da26998858/File/polotozovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef2142cf7ed3d07bc9b3a6811207b619/50078073985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://struttur-arch.it/userfiles/files/nemozipefaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce6574d1d5---kevujelapiwosutomuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48cc71ebc1---sovajuzevekulenozix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arredamentoambienti.it/img/file/81976414365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=converter+pdf+to+excel+wordPDF link annotation
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/wesogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c8d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8D8 17040 bytes
SHA-256: 5556dec872b6173e5d734be06785705946456902b036497b28110fa3c2bb87fe
font_01_sfnt_off0000f54b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF54B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D62 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 8618aa1edc200cd58f663056411d071956c7d135a01b9c8369376e967656bdaf