Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d9f52647c8b777f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 03:15:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: eb9f14fc7d353925aae7f09aca295a01 SHA-1: b8f5dbf0cd48da15b83b22a7a15ee9773d51647a SHA-256: 6d9f52647c8b777f78fbd7fe8c4e34c542664205974cde700b210301710ce615
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics indicate the document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggest the document's primary function is to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a0780c9609---15514948962.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/73674357268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378ec469be3---dugomazugoxapawelivise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/perukiwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/7885268538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbp.dropship-online.com/userfiles/files/mebejakowubesatagerepakup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sterlingsez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89995525233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodzipo.com/uploads/userfiles/files/niwuzawiwilonipavumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzebrno.cz/userfiles/file/40557441666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ae96be677---jawelibamid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrominicabs.com/survey/userfiles/files/xelolanuziseboka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rivudutem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hattshopping.com/admin/assets/images/ckfiles/51350681848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c09d4debdd25fa7ba24c56222d91b5df/nejebowogumajepofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tries.cz/media/images/upload/file/90964098432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f4413bd885---81684032947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oikoscoccatoarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/magowufafavoviralobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmoscm.com/contents/files/xilokaxudelumirebupozeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-vallot.com/upload/files/53889395976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903025158105197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=check+android+phonePDF 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_off0000e2d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D4 10424 bytes
SHA-256: e3608936a1f21b3339b5252c667656a7c4efb4e2da28bf26124a547d1ad26c80
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001126a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1126A 17768 bytes
SHA-256: eb2afbd2da723e2eb44e14cd0fc4e853ca872e5794e5872c184e56a4bc46c10c