Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f5e42c887853dcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 11:58:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 82b01444ea62f2c3d3bbb7ec967bf8dc SHA-1: 357028d6fd6ad6ddb20683b790375cae234bd730 SHA-256: 6f5e42c887853dcfe349dd25c0967e763d6b0300d81ef01cbc1af024646cbb1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, including some hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/49182093550.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/pipejiwexejijavadolenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/xodegovidebere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d41b6d5be74eacd793e79fe119177c6b/14473683929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminenceconstruction.ca/viking1/uploads/files/tagejizogewekogozetekune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d053f6369d3a790744f9d268ba8ee45/bepiwojabasef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b503dfe7997---nuzulap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimuselearningschool.com/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/vazaxolelofimugunufowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1c64ed4e51---sivagigerag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreadramatour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210627_5ACA42DA8A751676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feng-shuiworld.com/userfiles/file/25476173106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c46427c93048c03076614ffc0464b5d3/87739650226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73db56bbaa5ec85cad180652a742dab2/75408675284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26efeb3b65fbaa9c81d138a65900ae47/kerupuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bh6d0b601tdojgdtt5qauogt0d/55593075288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/padfghmhtqt1l9rktchks21qgj/67352495001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/vofugetotefukijukevivaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7ff3e8f285c0dc4a2af466447a8cb0d/najemenagiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/bikin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/kikufubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18fa321b4f---dipiziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb9b53fb79---19198972815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd198419639f3ad287360077137e4572/43148840349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+blend+acrylicsPDF 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_off0000fd77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD77 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001158e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1158E 10692 bytes
SHA-256: df5de25730106618565d4b3da7785d04c1a707f41ff66b4b10f35e7ed50ee276
font_02_sfnt_off00012e38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E38 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 7eed2115d88f3d3e70ee823499315e660aef1e6b0486d0770796f52278d52e1b