Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6afade4ad8806a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-08-09 21:44:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9375db1e9e961114e8d212fe6079deca SHA-1: b030cd1d1edb76ce9dae627fd43d72d3d8162cf1 SHA-256: c6afade4ad8806a7b484f94796fef6bb5b5a19e5688199e8ebf9b4afd189e128
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://jingchengs.com/jingchengs/ckfinder/files/20210626052045.pdf
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609236f8461d5---86056981840.pdf
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7d409acce---vepafojoseribizorovajo.pdf
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/19292590238.pdf
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db0ecb78893f12e7a7db741b949012de/97792925339.pdf
    • https://rainbowfurnitures.com/files/files/muxekisamenusasop.pdf
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/wowasosudopozelekadunaxof.pdf
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/tugiledatinivogik.pdf
    • https://balustrady-metalik.pl/files/sesizotet.pdf
    • http://www.tsahimmongol.com/uploads/images/files/tevemosulo.pdf
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/laligutufikirokokedixezuk.pdf
    • https://www.domaine-boussard-chablis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kirozajalififoxev.pdf
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/xasak.pdf
    • http://impex-italia.it/userfiles/files/68551039125.pdf
    • https://sankaibearing.com/userfiles/files/jozujapexowagawubi.pdf
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/57970238713.pdf
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4404964236ad66afedafa8cb723c4db/73940802716.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0k1gi3onbnd4hh5q86ro30com/tonasatulifuravikevezovu.pdf
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b1faa9da6---83488161730.pdf
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gcj772lonhntejnhb47329380r/27543574371.pdf
    • https://roeveragri.ac.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cad098c74b60e4c8d898748ac81ca61/4935155901.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c84bd37f1b3---wadojegavib.pdf
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8994ca9dd2d811fece98c2993aca4a6b/lizinibisa.pdf
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccee7e8fd2d---gasixiwigux.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=esther+newton+mother+camp
    • 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_off0000ec77.bin
bfd1daee44a9bffd8b9bbcfeb97d904bf859b61a39524b8bd0ee19ece1d53f97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC77 10568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010480.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10480 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011c92.bin
ad71ee59a9faa98b665abae207b4d34402576290e6a5c148e22968b286b952b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C92 16744 bytes