Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fb64802affdd148…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-08-14 13:41:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c92ceef30e2c3cbf3313a43c069a29d2 SHA-1: e4181d86051de39278c90422470bc747b6ef8cf2 SHA-256: 6fb64802affdd148fc796945a8a38079a402e870fcf179d0be3be59f8445a003
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of multiple links on potentially disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9051e774f---vazuwuziloxafoziladava.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/timaxojuzukupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/fegixolilawilapuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947aedbe83d---2206962402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/14071623097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/80271529889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/dawiwebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161005af52e525---18119229738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2072f02c0eb4c3f8f8cc3d91daa3477e/5780403288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/firupesapug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd59b12a4d---74611761407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/fededit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ca96491e8---jizaxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tranhdaquydep.vn/upload/files/43961956273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagepoorter.be/files/files/sivexalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ndrmn32koq27a12a7gnc2pgdu0/kuvokeviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/pazufususo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/23955695716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/tuxafebuvuvuxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ausafe.net/images/art/files/62587542889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36283a031608f894fe7ac76f9e5ac953/49201345857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samrayburnclassof1980reunion.com/clients/873185/File/kusotavevogosigavajus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=standoff+2+mod+menu+apk+0.13.6PDF 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_off0000e978.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE978 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001018f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1018F 11220 bytes
SHA-256: b961618425750e46ee5f381a5b4b827521efd2f1abe0fc86cb98ddbf8a14e0e3
font_02_sfnt_off00011bf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BF1 17428 bytes
SHA-256: cc6fba8bda8ee818f6923dbff37b7671fc49980d93095e631d2601d9d08daecd