Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e0f7117f42fdb8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:23:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bee95d8b20548b3a6811495815fa21c5 SHA-1: 581bf06abadc247470923980c9b9e3e335e848b9 SHA-256: 6e0f7117f42fdb8fb448c01d18e6435edb732a117e6635ae00fb28a3f0cb24bb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely to disguise the malicious payload. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44tkrsiegia4re6qaov69j9fe4/witomokego.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/ritikaremopirokovanezezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d0ae6316e---4538155336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eol.org.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52853664463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6cmb2le6kbmlfqpme2l8scaiu/4004096273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/94622615850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210701_0D20B8DC2E9765E9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa1929f43d---17544524902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jheh6s4sjglnv771utplj4oi9/mamadubazor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/124d57b56e265ce3fff0dab5d373ef7b/51130735775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6dbded6de4a96bcb8deaa6ea8397b90/83247986284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstyapi.com/resimler/files/16438486659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/lafapujezul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4149fbce95---panew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magooferta.pl/uploads/fck/file/5376423506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/50620306709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f05b11654fd---rimuwadufufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaskunstcentrum.nl/images/file/84933518263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3af44deb30---82798588735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminenceconstruction.ca/viking1/uploads/files/3510993547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/wegedepimebavener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3ea4aecee9b0e11a2dfd9ca704b4185/tojajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/29106112652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayanairag.com/uploads/userfiles/files/zetumupifavezarenafovelep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9da77efce4---85561702981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+ugly+duckling+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off000117a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117A5 10888 bytes
SHA-256: a4dd1550286e26bdf4b5aaf5731c65b9fc7bfaae8a30da487fcdf8ba81fd87a1
font_01_sfnt_off00013097.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13097 18968 bytes
SHA-256: 29f335ff0439e7b15f4a84e859ddbc3f9836f722db6e372d08ddca839ab41e11
font_02_sfnt_off0001619d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1619D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1