Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f867b9e32b05b2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:43:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3c7c166feb6b40223771e68630d5dcc8 SHA-1: ebe1061ad553936fb1c7488609d174fb3cee3085 SHA-256: 6f867b9e32b05b2dc0eddd2b0958a27f57a89a8601cd86cb1fc82a570fd745ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anthony+horowitz+russian+roulette+pdf
    • https://digireg.si/upload/pixum.pdf
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nedig.pdf
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4497281a2a---wolebinisewif.pdf
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6817714cdcfa47133efff28792d9aeb1/datikez.pdf
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/nunodukogulapa.pdf
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/12332111151.pdf
    • http://bukhatirhomes.com/userfiles/file/figafikote.pdf
    • http://trekkingsapatours.com/upload/files/kajizoseloxigezed.pdf
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4495789741.pdf
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210830221040.pdf
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4bb0d656ef03a537df5a378f955a26a/motojutagenev.pdf
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/44763949622.pdf
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/49010745043.pdf
    • https://consurs.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gigojaxujo.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65c052c9c6---81597041239.pdf
    • https://0a3exp.com/upfiles/editor/files/kexevalorop.pdf
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/69121447669.pdf
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/82344640579.pdf
    • https://renesens21.com/ressources/upload/files/91806722967.pdf
    • http://a-mega.ua/images/uploads/file/2684492177.pdf
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16c850dca0---59690917956.pdf
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a55297d6966---1847353741.pdf
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa6fca884b01ed32d79a6c3fb823518e/duvax.pdf
    • http://www.emploi.nat.tn/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23205084511.pdf
    • 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_off0000e113.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE113 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f92a.bin
993a30c8517b15f5dbbe528edbefd50f1edb2a1b79ca1097fde047fba0607601
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92A 10936 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011297.bin
7424d361b44437f27a1f4bbb0841046ec67554240b75d1bcb3d15abcff65e975
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11297 18652 bytes