Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f6cbe1ada0e83cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:10:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7d159885f2b7852b51e8dd8d22ce0e9f SHA-1: 98807d033739f6d06e1eb0b26ab8a4cb68478907 SHA-256: 6f6cbe1ada0e83cd4b511c3484fc6b0bf3dd2593472da8c5b661cc8307f8aa3e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal a link farm structure, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content. The presence of multiple links to WordPress upload directories further supports this.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a08531244684f44da606e394e9d41f7/sixasavumorimakim.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/es4r7gjve446ihtagrp7ser47h/86894203789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/52316750077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/waforofojizosudatawivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0898.com/userfiles/file/20210805114905_3g45v4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygenius.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9021799436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071464a42745---57613282496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faceless.me/userfiles/files/16288492926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131a95bc9fa9---genev.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077fed6b44a2---68264412699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210630120531242006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yocarbroker.com/upload/ckfinder/files/92141283435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121588b13dfe---wugiguvogosulemezajuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cce6d0273606f5c00331aadbe3ab76e5/43730599047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/fupugagipigirewef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krhkvfib4trg4g7nb471p4vl3l/10540834683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costabravas.com/uploads/localidades/files/jometebabugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weborder.cloud/userfiles/file///90082098775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svx.su/ffile/file/madaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/gawitejijemerape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098436c51b10---29764262260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kielcenoca.pl/files/file/14493083426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/nedegedutefagijogex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topimmigrationlawyer.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59412187400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmontagna.com/userfiles/files/wadawowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinazzjx.com/d/files/debosikovabiged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=%C3%BCbungen+deutsch+zeitformen+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_off0000d38e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD38E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA5 11264 bytes
SHA-256: b5ca1a6241cb413bad5b8da55186d465782b92dc262c662374a25609de0ff2bc
font_02_sfnt_off0001055c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1055C 20588 bytes
SHA-256: e67d8517f00d57e814495c0ab9c5960db5f2f2ac358683b83d74bc728a95b4fd