Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6fd4a32b2e36cf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:59:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 34b628557be7e23716569f789d338ef9 SHA-1: 4aa9f5b9c5d53840a0bf603bd70b7be2612b0f0d SHA-256: c6fd4a32b2e36cf46ffc5700e1d9fa2860eaf587423855db207b4cbb359370de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution lure. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with a link farm used to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+best+widgets+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://tour-paris-guide.com/cite_imgs/file/jubaxuzonaduteza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmikkino.ru/sadm_files/74652686632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vidujutisimuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/3878503079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ybshajiang.com/userfiles/file/2021-09-03/2109032045302426182rg5octex8hc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b998f89d69---69592699243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.savininkai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jamigosanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anduong-nhatthanh.com/uploads/news_file/10765641734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispecom.com/cms_dispecom/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/pepexizut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/murun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhandmadeitems.com/userfiles/file/fisifekeligijen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixaydungcantho.com/canthomobile2/public/images/sanpham/files/18230387989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1631161354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/4912405215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gimegijawemafilaponod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-promotions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1912647019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.com/media/ftp/file/votikabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuririwotegunijuzuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelrestaurantmacarena.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10279406320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedooverseas.com/userfiles/file/vulidodozikoroguwujifojef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momsgardenfoods.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/godafurisulafufezemiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613425725fce3---36636708899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christ-china.com/filespath/files/20210906031039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36682dd7f99ba873e6eb145b9a9b67d8/kapiwavuginu.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_off0000e232.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE232 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 07aa4ce90f7baa57e6dd02ec32e8190b895d9ae48158e67640c285d9d54bc3fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000fad0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAD0 17808 bytes
SHA-256: 3df240d7984537f5a0ecfbb071833c1ead1db68918cdf39df82cdcb419549129
font_02_sfnt_off0001283f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1283F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1