Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ff67119d01f4a9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:52:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1c143ce1c2bf34ebee91cce48a4f7203 SHA-1: 08f7cca708e4d397daaf39ffcf7f7379bf4a9ee7 SHA-256: 6ff67119d01f4a9fbff2c536c3a59e6f2b2ac35610b7b827ca95f0848005749c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting domains. The presence of numerous external URIs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an intent to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=he+wears+tan+shoes+with+pink+shoelaces
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27eavrab7gb167o1lj8912pe42/41770557651.pdf
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a737bea365---wabolerorefafo.pdf
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d21b421b1---fumatunovolefatuman.pdf
    • http://fpole.ru/sadm_files/79863988283.pdf
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714d6d16a74---tizetas.pdf
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/tinefuvojib.pdf
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/wefavev.pdf
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/79845342103.pdf
    • https://mangonebike.com/uploads/file/naratutisajaweduwobo.pdf
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/resirunumefa.pdf
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c256caeb093---67143047542.pdf
    • http://phamtrangia.com/upload/files/6837747694.pdf
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/fidaxevawakufusaz.pdf
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0cf4e47c96---12384193677.pdf
    • http://sheeld.org/clients/d/d0/d021426cee8527c21a172be12ef3d645/File/refarofi.pdf
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1a16759d3a---18672399574.pdf
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d6f06c7c3---zovesuxaferawuzefer.pdf
    • http://bobmeetin.com/media/galleries/files/putezeb.pdf
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9df7e5ed6---13023262524.pdf
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716df9f30d6---81972301804.pdf
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94db9a791968978774d2ea8957cf5919/nofupu.pdf
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05psagpjcpqug2tuoatq237q75/sedivevanolozazidemo.pdf
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc524bca88c---poxejokirobikul.pdf
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd42e6edcde776015f8304f99744962/ketoxatujugeb.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dbcb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBCB 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3e2.bin
f6f68fc42412847f09fe33394ce4818c23f1e34470c8f7bee0a144b17bf8f371
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E2 10640 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010c2d.bin
cc4ef7ecb4fd2239fa4f6e4b9b1355e2816803f2ea825096e2731d101af3c2b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C2D 17728 bytes