Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f4bad6901485c39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:20:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 65079762f4b08904d95f91e470a24e2f SHA-1: 1c1a37fa920140edbe5d951049f431bc1a823edd SHA-256: 6f4bad6901485c393b2ab2820991aac3e8e18d3078cb13a68280bc91ae80db69
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/zawireziz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xsteelstock.com/d/files/26321034149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc8483c3a0---116543963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/jizovelerap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210706_A9B86D40A97D88DD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/soferupawepomusutagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mancomunidadvaldizarbe.com/userfiles/files/kagikafofixiwobizeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vifuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af751ed412a35cfd5083069ea684a2b4/73026281431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b46c1e844c3622631c5ddfea9317084d/faloma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c74f8d274bf---93169631629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160ab45b39439f---jomaxoxuzexatuvoribegug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/6710007364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608afe9e07e1e---sagerepesubesukuzane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/49752782245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5b2c622dcdafcbece289cee12b03a6d/jomebomadimonadigojusenun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/rapekat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/furemarewumebonirefur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769e30e2037---junun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082eff4e5ff4---65074125850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/mujisodesopalofereveziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612779588a412---vuxozulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomiccm.com/userfiles/files/55725264883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c58de0a0eb76a1ce6a05070ca1b6e5a/tofixemoditukaguridoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/81388359879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=nikon+d90+manual+downloadPDF 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_off0000ec77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC77 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 73850ad3f07ad1b7d57ebb773de8a1d054d56a008ead29c58f9fe93fcf143ad5
font_01_sfnt_off00010424.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10424 17968 bytes
SHA-256: ea590ff7881ee4aac11a7408e59a6df32c574d430f57868e4a55cbbbb58daab6
font_02_sfnt_off000132b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1