Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fb5dca73bdf85fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:43:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ed4c8bbcc7b68318520bf8f2af5a9ab3 SHA-1: f4e9d61cf65379b3ad9db10e2bc4a552a07c33bd SHA-256: 6fb5dca73bdf85fc2a4cb933ad930718513ac2ad5ac0039687c0e7a7177c935f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the 'compromised CMS upload link farm' heuristic indicate a distribution mechanism designed to host and serve malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/basaravudufe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nakatka.com/files/file/74892232540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediljolli.com/userfiles/files/88440701658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/xezegubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e3424bd985f1b8403ba27ebe7277701/riluwedenodisufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimaletto.com/uploads/file/99449811544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/dazovejit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074724721dfb---vaxixopuvedofadoxibaninip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/lusenid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/mododuduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ed99210d8bfbbb75e9f1a5e314f38c6/49004843937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c69c9e3bf---94614768105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestsearch.in/admin/uploads/file/wewazetawetosibofek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akiku57pd4nohsvhhr00c4ho56/66408151881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k34ht3iql1mbiia7lcseg9por0/zizitira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhomkinhtoanthang.com/media/file/biwobopotirek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8be1a28e7---18469306759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bk.knu.ac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jurisetigeforekuvota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/24383143890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printjet.pl/pliki_user/File/lewijugubunur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6b1ea83c5d23a5f68ebff8a4f19f99b/xuzupun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b8aecb3f1b6fc0ba1797a8764dd832c/wopodevopixozelujerepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zxpgw.com/userfiles/file/padexumejikumomimarevofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/707c24450529fb9f94c2031ac1afe356/kemuwaxafepudewamarufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+does+temperature+affect+enzyme+actionPDF 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_off0000bc58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC58 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 52fba3a67f82c41a3a096987387c0456ff652a1f6e664adb8a7429f611fd4c7b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d63c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD63C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4E 14904 bytes
SHA-256: 67a587093c67d8684a664761842625a14bed22ebd801b95fda89f4babdb101f3