Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6d556e776c96c7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-08-01 06:54:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: dd093546736416ea1718e47dce21a093 SHA-1: 7481a2fe4c2e66f70c3ba4b1604d925da1f50cf4 SHA-256: c6d556e776c96c7f1158033e8b904e2635975e9b4578642aa2a2402305e61911
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for distributing malicious content. The presence of a 'Browser extension / update installation lure' heuristic indicates a social engineering attempt to trick the user into installing malware. ClamAV also detected this file as a 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.asslar.de/downloads/57668322418.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://globaltruthmediagroup.com/clients/a/aa/aa8380eac451876ae6ab993bf3a720d6/File/felupepowazosel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089fe4bb27bd---zivegupixakovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.net/images/uploads/files/movumagoxarexadoguxejeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1622582410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bf9e9d8efa2---79545081406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/90410733820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuadepthanglong.com/images/ckeditor/files/59853711064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daindnc.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/zaxinamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b1469f693---76091576002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/11976739152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a8dc5b9bb45fb66f97fd2b64f953bcb/16056472765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/6639028801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdgkeenq6km13itd8lovq49rbh/xenanelujojafodivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/xesakixapepam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://restavracia02.com/userfiles/file/39499469061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e03aa1070a9---dijulego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51dc8c4vmjpgmcklpo80mp7cbj/givojemefifavakedozinuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benevolo.it/userfiles/files/83196999373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f22e158af0---notokavamanubupizijudagat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derma-dts.de/files/file/1335835165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastriklandsbf.se/UserFiles/files/vukipivawunezebexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce2b66fdf5---30921463505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=anupam+english+typing+book+pdf+free+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc6e82ed76e---44471104643.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_off0001155d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1155D 18344 bytes
SHA-256: e6b651954bb43da0c5b3800d6191361d40a8262e42cad9ac05147a8b95851d9f
font_01_sfnt_off00014550.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14550 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015d67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D67 11456 bytes
SHA-256: 3af4ad0d6430d0b9a73dda12091aad79fcfb548d1914daa5bdd0229edbb25ac8