Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fc53eab794b3336…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:16:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 636fcebb677f9b753db28b5402dad7e8 SHA-1: 19c4ba743871a8f242f322e5713916af2889956c SHA-256: 6fc53eab794b333631d7583a32aa47a987ccaa042fc333e42bbd9e921df7cbd1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to exploit users by directing them to external, untrusted resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://raisemoneyonline.org/clients/6/69/691275cf9a36cab982b2498ebdc715be/File/xotigowozejajakujesez.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dztechfin.com/upload/file///91787464589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/zamuter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mn1j3bm4ursou67f7q1i7t4or6/61426028172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/114664efec36d45acea97cdeb882a3dd/wopitumagepexofefalufuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onecre.com/images/content/files/42251286542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spearsyounglegacy.com/clients/b/b2/b2c23f164518415ec8f3c1c8d0af542d/File/sekazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95543780792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etimes.mn/uploads/files/31877866195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77b1271ee16d7c5c207d2d67420353b9/gegananurijojubonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanlinh.vn/upload/files/lilamupopemapapunilujupil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seventyfirstclassof69.com/clients/60772/File/vigerijazovovodazeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091186c5351b---korukelijomare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091fbc015ee2---dulikulal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/99999256938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j27b89rps1iecirmoghef55ud0/29528995981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://downtowncincyhotels.com/core_degree/admin/images/cms_imagesfiles/45603982243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf7f21d8c7a---21137079858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ask8nh6vccedpp2lj1ddh45ke0/88049575180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muachungbaohiem.com/uploads/userfiles/file/53181176628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcubepgiangtrinh.com/webroot/img/files/21915145375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=libertango+piano+cello+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_off0000c937.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC937 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 6d901ec1b2dda8965c301cdb9100bab78197b7de269b27b5c5dd3d1bb5fdc6d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f59b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010db2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB2 10724 bytes
SHA-256: d3b6e446c00c7ce35a26af3d2566b13de32b7e24ac005fb27f545a06b317175f