Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6d4c499364c17d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 21:16:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e60cf64acc3e377968af069b797813d1 SHA-1: 196dbe445777e6d086d16aa5b692976f1ab928b8 SHA-256: c6d4c499364c17d48bf4d6b33f9dbe0e292631db7502469fcad24fe54eaa75da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, likely intended to host and distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an effort to obscure the true destination and potentially track user engagement with the phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bishop+position+chess
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7edc6a6e09---tabobubuzijevamiz.pdf
    • https://scanclean.bg/upload/ckfinder/files/zekalagiran.pdf
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff9f07100ea9ad9cb94d5ba92b2c4966/vukutekunotepiwumebo.pdf
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f870cdc560---vibexezazoma.pdf
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/metunaga.pdf
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861d7370704---63703353448.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094498b50f46---setetifinikevomafoluvasor.pdf
    • http://fst-uinsu.net/userfiles/files/75508482078.pdf
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1ehpeg2rcmefj3pim9jotutmh/sowusosulabibipowevax.pdf
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/33779307281.pdf
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887fc43ae1f---48015477297.pdf
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0efc47cd87---36369047907.pdf
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6ce64565cea8837f86c3b0ea3a65397/11298403329.pdf
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/nagilixusisunoj.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c712ebaa338---48904554636.pdf
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/34630356792.pdf
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c928848a8e---jozanilopewumiviboka.pdf
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/pujuxixaxekoxijobitud.pdf
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/43680559269.pdf
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/59195281796.pdf
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc41057210f---79782109006.pdf
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/doufhca8hqk57qal3jrtqgii4a/80695784091.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_off0000f252.bin
2621348eed89435afd671f975a2a3288af1ef21c8953da53218aa085e01bfd58
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF252 16692 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d4c.bin
3a25a37c0f83f2b2354c126b99bec7b9eabda85c222e16f41b505c9c7412c75d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D4C 10216 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013434.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13434 16792 bytes