Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6fc9eaca55db6ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-08-27 22:20:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a9e881db421eaf298bf16d6c94f4b843 SHA-1: aee14a6dbe80bf8a1f5968d2caf3668ad5795d40 SHA-256: b6fc9eaca55db6ad6adaca5d7074ba8fd70ddb49b4f38380cf4448582f0c3a1c
156 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 identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The embedded document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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 http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989a04e16f1---12081265408.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://abogadosaccidentealicante.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/lesujagunubofupopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d881723c45---43717585262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streetnn.ru/data/upload/ck/files/59924632878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dock-levellers.com/upload/files/dodorowitosasefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db93eba647b8a34282e08ab28a2472e8/gibikusosoxedafopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/90476779363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fapitibamit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/95979587933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lentes123.com/aym_image/files/7927485534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinamakina.com/userfiles/file/50064252047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfd83eaca3822e6b352fc53345ab029c/mutevatelanukasenozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/80996840619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/7174104508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/008c7fbbbc1f5b8b6cb7a7d2082ee6cf/21466458614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/deluto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/tovakosivolizufarisavuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cb687415d99ddb615e90f02e54cc559/97338068892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/kodatuwerizoput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/vawenanofixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://execdentalclinic.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51125236752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55229758634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmytour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210816_6650DC7125162FE1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e0754adf70---kusifiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=house+for+sale+in+ocho+rios+jamaicaPDF 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_off00011741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11741 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012f58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F58 10724 bytes
SHA-256: d232898ef2d714f7c43e3a25b21641c05f5d14f0a6c422725ee63f73ae5ecb55
font_02_sfnt_off000147a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147A6 18924 bytes
SHA-256: 7df75d45d4bbaf987aa212fe8b46d8e8b0278f52e73908e5e55a0f4d302b7d68