Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6df36c4fb61c694b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 02:48:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: dfe1531973dee192c5455416a1311fc2 SHA-1: 57dfaf0214f7e8379bccd14862c1b95b08ca3a16 SHA-256: 6df36c4fb61c694b4b01660ed5912dc9b5ccdff8f0c3f66f519d5bcb108e5dd1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links per host indicates a coordinated effort to obscure the ultimate destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://weymouthhighschoolclassof62.com/clients/5/50/50fe23896e84432c97ff20d680692bb9/File/99112049347.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70f0deb11967cc447ac0c83681a94967/75148310036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c327ce0df66---57453743748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5068cce22---fosutufuzibesove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a643a16c9c---detifobewoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/fapuwubemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607368d12f731---walefuwazizegipafaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afadbf538cb---81821513162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad94a32a9e---kefedoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/66412686399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27f6b4abbae4d046e37299d0644e37d8/gosomadadedinejoviri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://craftsmancuttingdies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/498653f673ffee609bd5b02e0e1f72ed/jilimeduvavafawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608530869f525---36629077799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carrentchiengmai.com/files/dokajededutigomabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d57b87da3---dubajapokovazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e4acbd4f51e16c7d29dcbba250623ab/33713402854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdeacf1889---wawulazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700c77f26cd---kufivojapawewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3620df02ad---wisilimonawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd97b5e3740---garotozuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080906ad0b72---40281936076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c40d06b9037b30e31462d60e5231c92/tobimavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nju4f4bfj7keam04nsnmdf30h6/niled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khanikango.in/file/zuvasotuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/42851913454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=why+love+gives+painPDF 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_off0000bbb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBB1 15048 bytes
SHA-256: ea559e647933c1aafde30c035886d17a2d4ffdc0dd58092040e6585ba15304ac
font_01_sfnt_off0000e19c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE19C 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 85ef8f4efd8e32efdafcbf63312928095857d5cfea2f8534194502bd0382b731
font_02_sfnt_off0000f982.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF982 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1