Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6df644f69b78c40f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:25:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d3eba3997458babb699b776440f476c0 SHA-1: 56a4480c37b31793b39f2e6d32d0f9e5f75b7c35 SHA-256: 6df644f69b78c40f115dc10495da0992068d1d76d258113809292e2c0ba3dd5c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The presence of multiple links with 'utm_term=send resume to hr for job' suggests a social engineering lure for job-related phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 https://optimuselearningschool.com/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/kopivarav.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://watosaphotography.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210904_202823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/35267713109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adas-muko.pl/photo/file/88930639782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/userfiles/file/23863552319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovofilm.cz/userfiles/file/tukopupuninuroragunofuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuxorevirinupuzaturi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbmounts.com/userfiles/file/1630740972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapet.hu/files/29210462763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5970c7d384d7984cad6827e0c4610cde/xivawowubababizaputaruto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-krmelin.cz/app/webroot/files/files/sasedizunaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132835e34d65---18599036849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/bejemumegofini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea4e8d0b19---figebovowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woxulajovoferaped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livelyway.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67935281880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltdb.com/UserFiles/files/921335250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://addisonplaza.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/12910957384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67080547071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makanbanyak.net/contents/files/97702320461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://helicopterleasingservices.com/userfiles/files/dakaxopigosulekut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/7256866838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=send+resume+to+hr+for+jobPDF 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_off0000ac83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c49a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC49A 10764 bytes
SHA-256: d31bac9e3595002b64a1b69ad7ac65f5a2b50a06f1beeaffbadf8c1acadd1b70
font_02_sfnt_off0000dd2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD2D 14540 bytes
SHA-256: eba8098f332d99998be49af2bc3beb9567254a07d7a96166243e78e4c10f625d