Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dca42d62789a8d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 11:01:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6fee90398f30f618ff7b525f64078da0 SHA-1: 447247cd2a25f2edae3ef81e06242004de91fabf SHA-256: 6dca42d62789a8d9c86a5cb44a250203a8b87c58448edd24fd49ee8a4c3636f7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://zajazd-broadway.pl/galeria/file/texubef.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://massintech.ru/img/outer/files/3588116992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/guvisiduxedawufisezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tostonet.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35018925738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prasongp.com/file_media/file_image/file/pifopadiludonopisuropi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloemenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/24487670843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavachhaiphong.com/upload/files/43973190517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gameadvisers.com/js/new/fckeditor/userfiles/file/dovakorutise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/969e2e5e8f6c7f2d9a20cb1a1720055a/93076969318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movimientofamiliadejesus.com/images/uploaded/file/56715371326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bussmann-tiefbau.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71749883061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sissonne.hu/editor_up/95913695869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateliersmq.com/pevron/www/img/file/sopal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210907205342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbe08f2dbb106ccc137301bd30d498c0/tuzizozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geluidsadviesnederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuxegulovofebevefezibipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afg1es2655n5g09nb8quvj1cb3/68251020820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weilandvloeren.nl/fckimages/xomapojovuvalem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prieteniitehnicii.ro/documente/file/493599045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tandartsindex.nl/images/uploads/masaxovanutegedij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f1dd485506---78131870467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labsshop.com/d/files/wofowedipimafelibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pibar.tw/uploads/files/202109060433191960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=code+source+free+android+studioPDF 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_off0000cfe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7F6 18248 bytes
SHA-256: ad2afb3d3891a9611f98ec88ee111fc2a25da312d9bcd6f8c125c529d9b0958d
font_02_sfnt_off000117ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CE 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 48de3b0674df9938ab8331b25a217394af417bc41c95edf1be6ffd6807690b54