Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e1c7d892e69215b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:51:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 49b517d42c85e17787a81570f8a2dc60 SHA-1: 4724dc333f14794d08cca6786b0b0845bb9d9515 SHA-256: 6e1c7d892e69215b060c4d6015623c3850a3a275d4e66ac5670b89519c4a91bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of hosting malicious content on compromised sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malware or conduct phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amuekvnpt1ajs5rnh3pk1l80r4/89307802089.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29970c99c0c2b1c34cb16b3227f57bdc/datixekenakofekagoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhiringisamsankalimandir.org/userfiles/file/29310762379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/11265612775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3d40ef582---92239086177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piazzademarini3ge.com/userfiles/files/66445045179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02ac4d0e802501696266c798634ab6f7/3999922788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1oumlnlhe15ner1t8aa9kngbj4/43327823138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a95ef9aa537669e46c833327ac593197/gesavenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/22433061374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pratiklinik.com/img/userfiles/files/7202693016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3f4d32799e---moroxodowoxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klimavill.com//data/editorfile/97979294357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a69de5da898---raves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prshots.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dukofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b523cb9b939154dfd775db371fccbdbb/zutemixofigoxaxapapopale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomacanthe-art.fr/imagebeforeafter/files/dovajebuvomusimatilax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/67847313975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35264118813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kagefin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082001ecdfdb---49487192411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zzld.com/uploadfile/file///2021060821512748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veszpremkosar.hu/_user/file/fulagofefoxerefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/pikisexamebilepemaxotano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=proposal+program+acara+tv+pdfPDF 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_off0000cb73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE385 17740 bytes
SHA-256: a1eb6e197a8559421ec1bcbe3a7dbfcf5d08782ac5b25cbbeff230ba69ce9f29
font_02_sfnt_off0001117e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1117E 10704 bytes
SHA-256: e7b336ededb8287eb14cbba09392b66f5e30be408411ce6a94cf1be0cc53a32d