Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dded5e6762e2329…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 01:50:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: affc4b090f8b8ccca1ad05c20fb98933 SHA-1: 05c7cb540453c01c13fc22983b0c9ca5c06b9240 SHA-256: 6dded5e6762e2329f74c50e99cd6904935692f3618afc5994c2c2fff75b59583
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, likely to facilitate malware downloads. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://telek-trans.hu/editor_up/23960324637.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_87A1DA0D80B68D94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408f0950f24---xugaworujoboxipujije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/38100873947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futurefacesmiami.com/uploads/file/kevomaxetipef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://state-lithium.com/upload/files/bomidogoramimego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/vivumogilazonisado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guus.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8491853722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamasia.net/upload/files/36753072824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/vilobidakirojajivozuwofoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://we-women.de/default/files/uploads/file/3412386480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azseal.net/uploads/userfiles/file/55312015423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vjlabor.pitscovn.com/uploads/Upload/files/35988612477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livelyway.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pafebabawuwarofofero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/somex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrofotr.cz/files/file/webafeduvolubezagojaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24horasnoar.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54665275696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/11441704263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewgroupresort.com/upload/files/74326442617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161376c78b2197---77683641187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7speie8r2lqvhkn61hk141t4q7/koromotaweduzevobobesuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suthuytinh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/nudotijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614022fa2aec9---78978223978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jszl-rolls.com/filespath/files/20210910030602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=mosayile+kuthira+meenukal+full+movie+download+400mbPDF 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_off0000e6ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6ED 11412 bytes
SHA-256: 364db4ed644d0b5ed544d4dad91619b4ea4ac2235ef122f5d9fb8fef6cd71426
font_01_sfnt_off000101c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C1 17716 bytes
SHA-256: a9358b7bdc26d2c01e777e1e7920a27d57056e2bff3802413980cbd407838c18
font_02_sfnt_off00012f49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F49 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1