Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6d114a5b0b674ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 04:56:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2f2518465a1c06eb3a2a61ea320274e9 SHA-1: b3527ebfcb8c0c925c0665e5a86682f09b51b2cf SHA-256: d6d114a5b0b674ad57518178df43c7d25471db1783e843a78b78acad5f89c6ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS upload directories on various domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f24a983403c9ccdef858f7b59058d0b/27966025966.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91bcdef6f6---31123213392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-16/20210616223411144197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k21hvhdpah05ms4c0s5qrc7cec/87296111522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea521ac4b4---66563666835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aee4390722e---tazekolonek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a831a289225---70895693332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bb65d35b2a---molemabowokubusozemopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/415ba60687dbe7613f549e47acfbc548/19284185235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9efoqgns54sbjsm3jb2563f63/jazofewawav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/vetebezemunemugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081562d3229a---25129867153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/vepipegexajuvovuxaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607205dbb9291---talob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61ka4lgp6a80pkjan62b6bqe11/dijezova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad3877c79f---44160041052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenhungstone.com/uploads/image/files/xolulepusisumizipuwezesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acbe9abffa5---73589207655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/febf4ef954791641efefbb9e46f18255/tomurerelawexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/teruro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=western+auto+wreckersPDF 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_off0000b6d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6D2 15952 bytes
SHA-256: fffae26ac1f06621ad22c3f8ca41b6410f3076118ad2d71db5697ef960dc3bdf
font_01_sfnt_off0000e031.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE031 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f848.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF848 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 1aec2664ef4f970caf6fd3fea2f47c1068fa76e084f2fb273fa44bb6201d6fa4