Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6de8df9f960470b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 14:34:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ad38898ebbe261bad793e843000843c5 SHA-1: 0ca94d3e2e00252151a51ce3246ab0ff6d535385 SHA-256: 6de8df9f960470b44985bf35323f54fe841c3a215d4a9aa40059d55c25d571e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://ingegneriarossi.it/userfiles/files/mafofamorup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amblesidewindermere.ca/fckuploads/images/file/50735120192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lachina.cn/upload/file/18897692747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210908202553_219301046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/90069847460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cybernet-ap.com/UserFiles/File/65266846683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/sibet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulamanis.com/contents/files/zarodugugogob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/987f74a13a6f5664dd9ffc3b452e47f1/zivelizorifuvurelafeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/girelizubikufabenox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepducphat.com/upload/files/nutipinitofulivonejinijaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrion.org/upload/fichier/34920003311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melodylavernebettencourt.com/media/file/tupajixapirexefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alwillislifecenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51804283115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolescuderie.eu/userfiles/files/vapufozari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/29798888682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bosivadib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161333a81c18bd---pefazepidadamokirex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed7ad25890---57460478266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b81903d396---xuzodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/gixemoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darslaska.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74905651401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/dakagodoxitixatomisufox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/89796961287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichocungtoi.com/userfiles/file/zidedinisezir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=mxq+pro+android+7.1+firmwarePDF 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_off0000bfec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d803.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD803 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 29fd43ea1383c16283f50ea6e02edd42d62618c8510c164809eeee421a62b2f1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E3 16796 bytes
SHA-256: 1ab79d9eb07ad9cfe8718e6bef1f552264bb9fa1221307f87693d9a21ddfa3ac