Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f72c0ce5431a8af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 13:08:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f4399914bab253c65f61467de4b671d8 SHA-1: 036d8fb6454051074fc2fbb112d6c4b58bae10c2 SHA-256: 6f72c0ce5431a8af5f7011587581f5b20c953f502ae169ac3295db56ba1a5d92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple URLs, with several hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, consistent with phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous links on potentially compromised sites suggests an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination or leverage existing infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/84057443598.pdf
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983f82a4ec9---bajizavubamomukefudu.pdf
    • http://rolfingnaples.com/clients/a/a5/a5422f62036d2d393d866963e902351c/File/pewodexivosuza.pdf
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dacea65cc7---jefexekoxiraxa.pdf
    • http://bkbflooringusa.com/userfile/abbey/file/89133176204.pdf
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/54363483843.pdf
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9501f5f30736ee221c0f5f906961953/dowazusal.pdf
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609848011dbeb---31668374470.pdf
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a7af9ae53---nuwezudixuwuwojoxulev.pdf
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e65b7847a---xikebofawegudevidovinoxow.pdf
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j89up4ec07prja36tsbet171p6/xitopoxepimivojejevafopof.pdf
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853f0d6a607---82618289907.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4f6aad17e4---pekujidonimuxadopurujanas.pdf
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/80614422902.pdf
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b91c150521---sexikexazit.pdf
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7494d93f59---26433284169.pdf
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/wavamijidipedaxevinebivot.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=coral+reef+animals+and+plants
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3a2.bin
1272c7a12c0bb84eea909699c194c411940282ace2a9e1cf2c465313303180ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A2 17496 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012149.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12149 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013960.bin
89464eacbce2770f4b1baf7e95ad3f391186b2d496e1f44118f6f4cc75455ece
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13960 10692 bytes