Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dd21c64d6047461…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 17:51:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9b981cfe567df401e31925b7e248ece5 SHA-1: 9b193a6691f8f2488c987c90972517fc05202f48 SHA-256: 6dd21c64d6047461b26787146b5a8080044c9253ae040e27fae734329c7305cc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'Fake invoice / payment lure' heuristic indicate a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/96941490735.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608890bd1fe53---98285026473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba5e49fc4a75cf95139ba87c70514cfd/43449297462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/57584484072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dc19c99d7---7148797662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087271ab1f18---getojusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84597941363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b907aa2d0b---87178222467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/tominokufagiwaxogokaduwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700e86db7b8---bevifenoteluxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5b9e68a494edae0b60b59388c74905c/71104760571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a3celpc4svjnai4hpkf468qm0/nixosafirarulof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67148c821945261ded2f39cefc66c140/xudulozojitediv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polimak.pl/userfiles/file/guzifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/82794403752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/elqpuahiccjuqe8ul477th8563/defojodovug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863bc9185af---54215563726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82acfc855485839eef6dd3d9b5fd51ba/56505508880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d89893db3e---99464903223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ede2aadead---jokevenojevot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.info/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///ritojebumuwodumugoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregor-biffiger.ch/userfiles/file/dinewixatabos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=vouching+of+cash+and+trading+transactionsPDF 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_off0000f164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF164 10648 bytes
SHA-256: f7665daba3e685f9177a518ee21264168f8fdbeb9bd57dbda0353dc103889856
font_01_sfnt_off0001098b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1098B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001219d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1219D 17064 bytes
SHA-256: d07523103f14462e9d397d4f0ed131b8f97b2291c0a02c718ae8babaa2b76152