Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6f8aea5dfcd4d34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:32:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c21030629c7cd4a1c111ba3bf9d691e0 SHA-1: 1db8489640a9765c2da3079ee31ef8796d19e9dd SHA-256: c6f8aea5dfcd4d347078dc8313fb41c383a77a035af0805aa8d43254690487ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the ClamAV detection ('Pdf.Phishing.Trojan') point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111a845c4204---74435299599.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anabakorea.jp/userfiles/file/57724722915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e8b500e584---meforiwedubin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tingyi-bnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/kuxila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e73ace80f26bc6c844ad308e37e32956/92367363889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0g0aov5gekt35bs1f65g6sbf74/20635209109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tvba3mt734mkib6bg4cg9inhm0/rawukolevixugudasosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinoorchids.com/image/file/dojevobedofajasale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9lhddqurft6eue8jfh3c77ctc/96177745414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salinahighschool1968.com/clients/3/33/33fcb9b832a528c934b1ac42c6b88a99/File/besij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/besusuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitk.ru/_files/pupatoninakamutid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2a0rcv1h54ni3bro2bgna11c5/jadogojopapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4f015772fab088edf01c8c527244053/87754644318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cichanski.com/Upload/file/33759582068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanbangrd.com/userfiles/file/20210727064645_1211204621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biemmecommerciale.eu/userfiles/files/xemusaroxodezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aexpress.lv/index/images/up/file/bosezinufutoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/gilojomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thucphamchucnangmy.vn/uploads/files/24605632077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havilahbuilders.com/userfiles/file/zopafebaxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/jenumubirafemusadekefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/89573051331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b00b9b11ccd---89705062032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=mohos+y+levaduras+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_off0000dea7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA7 19232 bytes
SHA-256: 0a5d14c20a9e57fb056b2e1d0b035d426f7e8056dd62d1c1de71d5fe037ffe09
font_01_sfnt_off00010f56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F56 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 038f7ffdc4a2ffa73027ae718e15fd0bb42dab19716f86df89e12724a9893a65
font_02_sfnt_off000127ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1