Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fd7afa121215e05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-10-10 21:29:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: f6c3f687f54c00bc4da935cc64dbfdd5 SHA-1: c86c96924312549d27141f1b86940695a9944c98 SHA-256: 6fd7afa121215e05d1ba5bab00783aaa04f29e59f8f3fc97741d5695e6002211
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, some of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The presence of a visual download button lure further supports a phishing or malicious download attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://lehnerkom.de/images/uploaded/file/tekuzipi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://formpart.com/upload/ckfinder/files/1041458014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abdon.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23007763569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/zutumilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldadmin.k12cart.com/media/files/58445458235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/48031961533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzion-palice.cz/content/sowajosolilije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16159d70ced3ef---kasitafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/buzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mh-gartengestaltung.de/userfiles/file/wizumolixajowujaxono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce562bf2e67c8f708de3a1e935448c22/11934786595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maha.tcnme.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/tuwesetoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reitinguok.lt/userfiles/file/ruxugejikude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/rolojitidufigamumafav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08d95b2cf3d383e7c8d55d62d7590ae4/58428763354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.thamtuddt.com/uploads/image/files/5782938228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d232e9567d---64379882682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jainfarms.com/uploads/90014308716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/wotibijofurekomafomiton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614eb8f35c4bb---38569092457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1360e2271691f64fd8da2e40ba1c3db1/19096213533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/25559153358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieta-plus.pl/userfiles/file/gitedabumogagebanaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/57217465501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=need+for+speed+2016+torrent+downloadPDF 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_off0000cd80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD80 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 8a7e272bc515739e2b5fcbc893fdc404cec03dbf9355e41fe9f31b9dda1d38ae
font_01_sfnt_off0000e727.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE727 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF39 19736 bytes
SHA-256: ebc6640015eba2e3e4b9962602bec26b67bb862eeb9ed18b741d41887a5d92ac