Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6eff2914d8fdf5be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:17:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4957e8b0286c2a19d700402ed89d9503 SHA-1: a7a64111c08682a05090cd4bc301c52ba03bea5a SHA-256: 6eff2914d8fdf5be9f7c1e1a630d7685048646b554c656d711947e7260e33e54
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning model with high confidence. Numerous heuristics indicate the document is a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites and raw IP addresses. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12a5c5e5f880554ac2fcf36d3fd7f3d3/xusirakifidulizudugu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hijaulumut.com/contents/files/puwadifejowijuzemuwenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8005597b6299f175d5a9a091733a360/jerumajoxonegurodexig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotelbg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/47054752726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syntrend.critical.tw/upload/files/36385306307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/71850889778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e902147e7---56975981868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://first-group.kr/ckupload/files/jazerirekajit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzqzg.com/d/files/42802131323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dangeloremodeling.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/nobuvula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af4c95e458---32974956265.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://nothingelsematters.net/pharma/images/files/99678804646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c5220cab699e0218d8138dba51729fc/gegazezefaxujiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090148fe269d---lugidirasoraru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesquebec.ca/clients/f/f5/f58105ca183540932673f5bf18e62671/File/munifixuxorenomedumebig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elard-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lozafofezanuwigurosowubib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/61411583493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c677a35912d---rakinamovexazovokiwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fenotropil.ru/userfiles/file/wutinoporifuduxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/46731260187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/83863174363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798e5b504f9---finebabivirowowesigorawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=clash+of+clans+account+giveawaysPDF 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_off0000e372.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE372 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 02c6a56e77df140474238ecafabf01d53853b8747921419c56c12c1e8226017b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC8 18340 bytes
SHA-256: 5bc38e92c132e1add89e0bacd10cdfe47607f37568732b9a053bd6558cae8bff
font_02_sfnt_off00012c82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C82 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1