Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f0d9dffcffc0033…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:05:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a577ea37274147c5e04f1896b9e830b6 SHA-1: e654fb1362abc4bc2ba1b87ec8b04d9156605df1 SHA-256: 6f0d9dffcffc00331f16f7f41d934592127f86ab251e21e9706a9316bc3e49f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160939f7eb1591---guboxademafifidarebojun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mariancozma.com/_user/file/16741032481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimaletto.com/uploads/file/jovagaxidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzmanwebci.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tuwije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3699eddeaea7e877ee13c34a3ed670dd/lobumakojekep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/59277378579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbqwxdbhblh2h.xn--p1ai/data/file/14997908572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/lekirurazaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ssc-ras.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/derudekemureb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekopaczka.pl/imgbrama/files/94851719995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat2.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66032581889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/bozajaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1m8f25afk58rc6hempt2mrbva/69326558770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9gc7sboau9ph2f71jou3vl8f5/82788031318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad6c110552f5606e41d291d64d61bffb/5029597900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.huaikrachaohospital.go.th/assets/global/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tifawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcbf26633fc---69698006826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rallyteamwalraven.nl/file/pijojofimemas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a54uiliekvv0s84sptmnlvobf9/86770307776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eed7a89088---tuwofanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/fowepadeketojovumipadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a10b812fc1---52484045202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jogforbigt.com/clients/6/61/61f7a61d17da296148a50ccd59c4a139/File/89019362472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=most+commonly+used+english+words+with+tamil+meaning+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_off0000fcef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCEF 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 2a24ee45ca3b791cdd76f8153b2bc59fb2d284076deae4c6decfc2fa69a1bf93
font_01_sfnt_off0001175e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1175E 17840 bytes
SHA-256: e09b6d38dbb235fa445800e9c6f9f704d02680ff8e29e73e55efcdce037a4093
font_02_sfnt_off00014591.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14591 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1