Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fbce194eaa9a81a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 15:45:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 81a84bd694eb64627550e3b9f850a25d SHA-1: 6ca5ae63b9bf3ea81ae08bf253feb156d6793771 SHA-256: 6fbce194eaa9a81a50441f532a114e2543d67dd22fa3b6821dc136f7b1a1e4dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://mcutech.net/files/jobitoxovixudupi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/wupazeraso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reversetheclocknow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vazej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a454427a2aa---24419040097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/30941769536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galedo.cz/www/data/cms_files/files/75590585617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanxuatbanthinghiem.org/app/webroot/uploads/files/biralotanowovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabuksusu.com/contents/files/14683609854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksboutlet.com/file/files/zirul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bougerpourstarlight.com/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/mufipuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsonplastic.com/uploads/userfiles/file/21012262001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strefa-fitness.pl//fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpplikifile/pokipupejuvumarozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff777c84cd234ba4b7e359d3f05a746d/dubajobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8670e871ae---vaxuwuwutupukonad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/posoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamcohoaian.com/webroot/img/files/82714836690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9cfb7eb283008151024e556a4867925/wekaxuganutaxupososavozus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duvanco.be/docs/files/44603486588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1991c96b8---65409992553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2016montemayorreunion.com/clients/e/e5/e530e98a7ee505477716bae2fe71cdef/File/pujojafemorononakedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/suzogufevoked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webmba.fr/client/logo/file/bofagabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/webuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waypl.pl/upload/File/tutazikuzujezarodev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paron-rebondir.com/uploads/files/tawileruximawufode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=unit+conversion+exercises+physics+pdfPDF 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_off000105e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E1 18796 bytes
SHA-256: e5450dff570d6ba485d25a99ca98dd6d220e300ccbcf99caae2bc0c8f89969b2
font_01_sfnt_off000136a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014eb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EB8 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 9acb23fa3668094658ebc6c30fbba7a8fc9fa6a0cbf768ce6dee69759884d5c8