Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e6773d9324dc575…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-08-07 02:32:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 0d20fa70f284f4a1abbc5de8ac79f294 SHA-1: 803a470fa08d86048b9050a5cc5b4cc77ed5a122 SHA-256: 6e6773d9324dc575a888c7a743d4693ab1a3feacdd0634abe1f62674c2584a21
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The PDF structure and embedded URLs are consistent with a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=competency+framework+template+cipd PDF link annotation
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/222hrl4ajsc3jrljpmckfb70j9/62209053987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f786e0057a---85470203559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b40bffb5689---97164020595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elisa5888.com/shopadmin/upload/files/9394590819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee8fa61bece---89023242041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845a6094ad6---97755826442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7nlb65uutl4luqo48c3hf1d21/misadufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infoegrafica.com/userfiles/files/xoturirakari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/xudiratas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extrastyle.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13496125599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/10659015768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/40665850819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dptech.vn/uploads/files/modemumifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab84a7df647c6f7ff85c827e94adcb7f/benalikorunesinurawokuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071583f01974---xajedirupikud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608105a8c84dd---38011884506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/labozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e72ea2ae63---kovepirogoxexaxixutop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://overtonnation.com/clients/f/f9/f97855507a39dfa58978186db9bff07a/File/63517805914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1536a8c6b0c0fe1e82a49909cdf043ec/lijawasiverosivegoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fcbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCBE 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 849cd2583d26d6cfc4acdef06a10f71c50d7cf2b160764fe9d8e69d12032f708
font_01_sfnt_off0001161e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1161E 17492 bytes
SHA-256: dea08fc058115fcd41b8b52d8dfdd80ec1fc48374ccde58b47a0fb2687d9a8e7
font_02_sfnt_off000143b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1