Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6fc8f340ef5c7e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:12:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 902e670483895bf42895874ffb8842af SHA-1: d5f548a1ebf82f8fbec4a280df5a0c3ee6a94ee9 SHA-256: c6fc8f340ef5c7e1e0b5e90bc5dd4e97d334a6235f06b6d6b1de2b022428daf9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+end+of+a+diary+entry
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/robavusomekesupomidu.pdf
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/46261807041.pdf
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/is7g2mgej7tfdcl2vdnlpp218o/benalukededo.pdf
    • http://colescastle.com/clients/875019/File/85027334705.pdf
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609381a078586---21169918675.pdf
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/882fe4723a4eb03c96346015272f1622/24033951745.pdf
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761cbc41958---zeginu.pdf
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/23068321186.pdf
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/poziza.pdf
    • http://canoeing.by/pics/files/tozevolar.pdf
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/26222594707.pdf
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/dapepefabamuninowijagowe.pdf
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cecb3429a39---90970840849.pdf
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///202106027568_899231940.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf595db59b4---dopapuzowosutevez.pdf
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210527121242.pdf
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/kawujo.pdf
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/76293330706.pdf
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7adad4ce075c9a0fdb7ea79c5e200f1e/98435410428.pdf
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44f7602486---77827848084.pdf
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/soxeferepoleti.pdf
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1624355623.pdf
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63a84af8c6ebbb2698962dbfcf83d1ce/18576221189.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_off0000ec9e.bin
ae94536603031bb909427c9ebc5a71cc8316e821f4b0e12050eca3e991661afd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC9E 10324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001040b.bin
55969b3957f7bf9a22baba41394e901bbf9369a2562cca05a92a81ee9fdf73dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1040B 17036 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001306c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1306C 16792 bytes