Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6f877436e5ddc32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 08:56:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: efcc41a315f29b360f498473f3144f9d SHA-1: 8d096c161c8fa1bda0e7860bce1bc4c6a7a9671e SHA-256: c6f877436e5ddc321a5f97196b51807ec351e1dfda19fa65eda520a792dfe935
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hooked+how+to+build+habit+forming+products+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://hstechno.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/29205317982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/81125677160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rtm-plus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gadavajefetomim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melly-incendie.fr/img_db/16292729712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dulobugerolozuxebodowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annabarons.com/files/files/97261826955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakistanchristiancongress.org/userfiles/file/getunirafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musikpark-live.de/userfiles/file/wipexetaraleta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613906631d651---85140784964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finara-v.com/file_media/file_image/file/14115953106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glassick.com/userfiles/file/zetelibufomidudabenuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hs4i5b68i01kpovpvmip0pf9bc/93196597403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/ginulopowupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedria.es/DOCUMENTS/FotosFCKEditor/file/newatelimepumutekisigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nickelmarket.co.za/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22011559040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/573038ea3770ffd951d26b513d9b0a2f/ziketotikowalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurerom.com/userfiles/file/nawejegegakug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upservice.expert/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tobanifuzafokizazinufegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/49682876481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d9f49d72c2---51510946581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yigang-lin.com/uploads/files/202109160032033634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/renukinuvarotetapofisol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/89361091647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/jubadinatilepojujixuxupug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.erealitysolutions.com/tennisontario/assets/appsadmin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10637984372.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_off0000e435.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE435 18488 bytes
SHA-256: f82cddb94396426514b384a9cb55b2cc6c37c93b9bae73ee4be188b22f4ae618
font_01_sfnt_off000113f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C09 11476 bytes
SHA-256: 216cb29a8f08eb5b3187ba8c4ea2c1fab2a91b979c279a4cc026ca70d05ea5fd