Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dc0e3cb0d27c20c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:07:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f757dfbd99c05692e8606c4ff2339af2 SHA-1: 7aaad07672ac7578d96dafb0cfcfd98891398075 SHA-256: 6dc0e3cb0d27c20cdf9160c747a43bba4d3327a9e616e8f412208df5a724e32e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to host many links on different, potentially disposable, domains to evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bimanual+palpation+definition PDF link annotation
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/39428186018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vurogut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zerling.eu/nico/images/files/xuwagopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmjrmvephc1i6nj5v09921laj2/gevomixotewenezegakefimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alves.bg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tinimurikanorezunetupida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed07ea4a01---44410621726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/29097871329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nothingelsematters.net/pharma/images/files/99678804646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087770e3abb9---zajisenipogirekafozorawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wopuzomisasaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerseyshorepirates.com/userfiles/files/wegiberedite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwferrellpkwy.com/uploads/files/33716847023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613262c98b304---80624568747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdacable.com/d/files/vipinanakojenupotada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pallenberg-busreisen.de/uploads/files/63986128482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2cf4bb0945df538a9cadc4f91ca4954/fofamonovifilezumozapagar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/85925299469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilcafe.it/userfiles/file/levukobususa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curewelldiabetes.com/userfiles/file/94354621537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e128003fe08746309b8ca0994b12d9f3/82462948788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a2b80aa38e682d198a3218ca76a1bba/viwira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluellentrees.com/clients/58222/File/97793502775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tries.cz/media/images/upload/file/wumov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/ropejotinufawokuzufali.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_off0000e25d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE25D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA74 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 8563264b470ac0145e71dea44f96e754b4e3ff73170d74d0f3ac207adc9b2e0d
font_02_sfnt_off00011271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11271 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 72a250689bd5a4ad1bf3de5e3d9b0c63cf0985b4644781f2881dd3b01b316fb8