Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6faf025120731394…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:57:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: da1cf60aebdfc185d06bff5d48a51f3c SHA-1: 409551ce996d47d30cc5cb297bc496d8f8ef3677 SHA-256: 6faf025120731394364a27e6f9c5f6ec87dfc3ee8583e426fd9d2881bcabdc5a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and link farm indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://inse.us/uploads/images//files/rizusitazek.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/limevuxosatuxofoxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5c9613c84---87643348476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609456f2e1452---75000601845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmoscm.com/contents/files/lidiwurigowudujaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/38967953650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hataylezzeti.com/resimler/files/jujunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://get-insurance.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/belazuzumonawekisekode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44b7e06a9b8ab07b3e5fd720a586a48b/tutuzitobipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slide-bearing.com/d/files/37339388973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5596dde559---14427282055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c37810b1d17---42803770119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/16253137861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-con.ru/upload/files/67616805318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barsugo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruwusokilurubavano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072aaa6c219d---23963115778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d27a0816532---75536842307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neo-net.info/giganet/files/file/mepotoxuzolafexinusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/25082425367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anakmeong.com/contents//files/58196940575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaymanhinhlaptop.com/userfiles/file/16136691492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/20238031124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28030fdd8814b4811e4319c3652a1921/87121114664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/76015379358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=time+off+request+template+wordPDF 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_off0000d7f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f00f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF00F 10852 bytes
SHA-256: bfe3f688d5d3a684ac857cc8a1b06516a0529630227c5af34210360d1ce8ebe4
font_02_sfnt_off000108ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108FF 18068 bytes
SHA-256: 398053e07beac4f6bccc27a57e10ff721debee982ea63cb6f375b9d3f5234e0b