Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6df7a540775ab9ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 04:25:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e66652ac59d4d917a5a3fd88990029a2 SHA-1: 7d8acf28a1e7180f86b84ec5c72018eb2978fcd9 SHA-256: 6df7a540775ab9ffc875bb1e4993a84494465ae3ca0bd7e44478a1beacc26839
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifier indicated high maliciousness. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a lure, potentially involving QR codes, to direct users to these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://enkaotomatikkapi.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/xodakafosabakef.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/radirudulafotoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents/files/xaserapedopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/76309374760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chugguwang.com/files/fckeditor/file/gabajobagopefibadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spodne-pradlo-2bpoint.sk/UserFiles/File/luniwijazukujugonupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifecare4all.com/upload/files/vuwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614459fb24aea---60919149137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potravinyav21.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bomadubopemapodesitoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f432553fea---xumefaduzetis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dierenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/bozexodosinosarote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovstav.cz/app/webroot/files/files/fopavuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puginternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63513876825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aurorabersinar2.com/contents/files/leguzudozinarezon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///wuwovozotugokovasamibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7t11ca9intpiqfkimfq5p5abub/menakozarebidutog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanomanberjaya.com/contents/files/jajurediwovurejiwijuvolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteyuri2.com/userfiles/file/nudegiresal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://templeton.sk/userfiles/file/79467529158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/73653861224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldazegliotorino.com/userfiles/files/migafedezulezibetiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telliogluhukuk.com/userfiles/file/75636365221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/tamazuxolunevibebimenoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ae66af080---15424097308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijtm.in/userfiles/file/45038416497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=vpn+tornado+pro+2021+apkPDF 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_off0000e08f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE08F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A6 10304 bytes
SHA-256: 3e7b979682ff09d87546173ad4f3570e5669be1db6558019e5408eefd2739de8
font_02_sfnt_off00011007.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11007 17868 bytes
SHA-256: e7b883f369b3fccb71250b4e519ea00c53f4e633af069108344f1071e38be4ca