Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6096109ad45fdfe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-08-30 14:11:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8c680a8c20ea23898a115bb135b17b8a SHA-1: 22ae6003d1381bc00c423381224a6a97c8cc84f9 SHA-256: d6096109ad45fdfe88b1e301f3df1ff72c425ad05078fd74909e8c3eb63baf3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/sesagojakexisanaxipagadar.pdf
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44632178139.pdf
    • http://bjsixiang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210812092035.pdf
    • http://home-hj.com/up_photo/file/pibira.pdf
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4212fce8b2---46787333684.pdf
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a20cb6bad7---16525988993.pdf
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02f02d744f---bekewimitejogaw.pdf
    • http://michalpavlicek.com/uploaded/file/fakotarunokujurilujun.pdf
    • http://kayapaliinsaat.net/file/21964050544.pdf
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/38977856359.pdf
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48637acea9---tufefiwetipuxirisudidanaw.pdf
    • https://dangeloremodeling.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/20326249606.pdf
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2b4uapoenn8dk1hqk0ek4uo3m/wofawal.pdf
    • http://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/34319362812.pdf
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756ce2996b4---bapolopesebajirupavas.pdf
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/68844343424.pdf
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/29333290683.pdf
    • http://prasongp.com/file_media/file_image/file/mazixegar.pdf
    • https://tekstilkentrehber.com/upload/ckfinder/files/3436209825.pdf
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/21620728333.pdf
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161242ce3909d0---nalumalutemogawumuxewuba.pdf
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210627040420.pdf
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esknsj4jrv0mmn4d4ebkr07fur/83606173080.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=when+marnie+was+there+eng+dub
    • 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_off0000e0d3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0D3 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8ea.bin
9e8bc9837e50dc299506a88c858f94f2f355bfffebf43fa0fb5c1b5030e82c60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8EA 10848 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011194.bin
e0c126e9caf04a95f16aa0ad92f0ece3fe6838b4f3305f54c5aaafe9855d38b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11194 20564 bytes