Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ee356c45f58dad4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-10-17 01:13:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: f023699320482f85de2cd0629208dce9 SHA-1: 7da2424f8b91b8d41c7be0e48db9102c7aeec32a SHA-256: 6ee356c45f58dad409e1f5dc07cbfa825cac428edcd8ab41bbbaff8dd5e25eec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous PDF links and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://jamalcar.com/userfiles/file/goles.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alstar.uz/images/shared/file/xurewakotutufobupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuketdriveschool.com/userfiles/file/68433719958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giraffeng.net/infodaily/gen-ckfinder/userfiles/files/43480443857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/nakibesekex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmi.lu/userfiles/files/31058517184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311da7d7f57---xunegemusazunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruja.lv/uploaded/file/rumajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiciliani.eu/userfiles/files/66405112083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akoseq9f.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/rerekafozerasuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fff108c67d75a840196a5c54f9b44655/wibijamubov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahanakhon.pacedev.com/ckupload/files/nevolagipune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///32195353573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarangroup2.com/contents/files/dijedirodamafasipuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51084051749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomdatesuae.com/userfiles/files/43839821259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/gusewukojosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16159e752e59d9---27851802615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kc8bg1tnnplqje9tlst6beu8em/nipuminedutetok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oasis-travel.ro/files/28308631378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/84773885114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karpataljaturizmus.hu/upload/fimazise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/cmwvf4RlXg4/uplcv?utm_term=high+monocytes+but+normal+wbcPDF 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_off0000c5c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDD7 15584 bytes
SHA-256: 85c7369f90285fbf910ce4742b9799652015bcdff8f32a3885b38170ca1fdcdb
font_02_sfnt_off000105c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C1 11108 bytes
SHA-256: c8aecb6c676f0f76664bf7277e16f3fd4860952669d7f39e52f5026219d64c9d