Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6a6c1bb80310908…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:11:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3ea6f7d09329fc1cbdc9ee41bc4a4a88 SHA-1: 73e7fe4b0efe61f6cf01f5866b20323a804a77ba SHA-256: c6a6c1bb80310908b3edb00a5fa6115d3ba09d4ac2581c88bce37bd5df11d8a8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF employs an image-based lure, a common phishing tactic, to entice users into clicking embedded links. Several heuristics indicate the document is part of a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f40604d06a---sisedatajudelenovoxuvep.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gm65h5bh869ee8h0t7doen9ig3/gawizegodiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfinshaat.az/userfiles/file/29169306964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/4865968779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fbd6782b60b2ee93d1578bc2b7458b1/nufoduwimevumopegadulowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iowatriallawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/guritoraruvufoluza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/292129556326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/zojazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k9careclinic.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jorakatebul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4cmedica.com/ficheiros_upload/file/sipizebuxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madonnina.info/userfiles/files/96203715493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myxroad.com/upload/userfiles/file///23379596141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/393e6ef42311917f7174107e5655b60f/77221380043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czechdidgeridoo.com/admin/upload/file/54325126659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aea854a5c69---dunibutivudugat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnsunnyfood.com/d/files/67932499790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd41b139a2---vikotul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/rakifivovevin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-4/20210804082354962286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5jua2vdl28hl1fkehqqjltidd/miteraboxugopusiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22e20f5e7f331cb3336569b6b7b2d48e/xiwajozivixut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaestehaus-am-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/86911323623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cmi+level+5+diploma+in+management+and+leadership+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_off0000b009.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB009 11176 bytes
SHA-256: baa89b08e354fabd5b060c203642ebe7eb26a0132b3d692f353ca571acd03342
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D2 14044 bytes
SHA-256: bb4d55f4d7357ce94c1355a51f1df996e68add456d0668b321b40d6e68aae779
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1