Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6193afe9a46f2f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-08-24 23:20:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 60f23b0be351015e8311dab14bbad8af SHA-1: 554628b75b8538a1c6567548c6d47525abcfaf7d SHA-256: c6193afe9a46f2f3d005a0b63ce84bc43a9835f0a5e215603b0a561c899fbfca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites, including those hosted on disposable domains and WordPress upload storage. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=taylor+series+explained PDF link annotation
    • https://xn--pssa17sw71b.tw/upimages/files/selipelasedaxawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac648be8af5---nepigidutesuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipmax.in/chipmax/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a864c2fb9---57102953732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecachet.fr/docs/files/37797923848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/kelexiwumukasaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4fcbac86c8---munenitimagoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayinbranson.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/koxopakibivekom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzayithalat.com/spot/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/26008340825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f7a6e08d6---dafiwesutoworug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d1e2daab9---70979144292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casentinoshopping.it/file/99515193136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2709c14e5b---2166410374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c431a3dce71798faefb2874f445a3d54/zekulabugefiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3308621fd4db3d9ad9ff012739de17c2/76566631078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc80117b1a---fuvuvemosavez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exoticland.bg/upload/files/files/vumesuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marigabung.com/contents//files/78327701629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011623.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11623 10464 bytes
SHA-256: ad1f83619e3c5654e9a5e5517f04abc5aba9ed603ceecc8335fb6eda3fe1466e
font_01_sfnt_off00012e07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E07 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 70781422c34d4a56b16ee01636424bdb0264a2e895ec284f049592ca5367027c
font_02_sfnt_off00015b00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1