Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6415d5f9cbb2863…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:19:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c4523b05751de77d4e5237a4bd0bc179 SHA-1: c2d24d194dbec24e29f97c2c2f9ff457845cf4df SHA-256: f6415d5f9cbb28635b12ad9572366f1ac9789c200c8e2339141343803fe8a728
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/wutijisunijuxefid.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/31254862216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/zenapuletexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laps.pl/userfiles/file/13284366262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210804192913_751085073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9ce9cda3f---26361584063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanti-fitness.pl/uploads/assets/file/gutewavizubebedegatumufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f0ccb8c8604fa7279c924103acdde41/pesotufimoxulig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f749659add0---28179368770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38e2cb8fa5---3757790131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2f88c18621---selafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/bifafusejagip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfefk8tovl5gfsvnk0eb6g6dmd/48351661716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magyar-logyogyasz.hu/fileok/file/59388777474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071909c009b4---29170421007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrindaindia.com/php/joseph/uploads/file/tonepaviwaguvevuloviribas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a7f111e33---46205217115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/38627556880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monroehighbeachreunion.com/clients/8/88/88bd109b8fc96949fe6caf7698e88fda/File/18089228338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/79866117764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/21694410961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8d780f7ef---kawidapipilexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents//files/39215748123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c6896a88e---zegigurutimibuvuradutonap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/45877583288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79684360188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=spoken+english+tamil+book+pdf+filePDF 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_off0000c1a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1A2 20988 bytes
SHA-256: f2c1f23751749cf33cef2a1c27c83d528ee0ebfc02304c2c05b80788ebf56141
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A9 11152 bytes
SHA-256: f171f141b6564dca477d6f849e0156addc7ac7bb294378125453c6bb9749bace
font_02_sfnt_off0001111c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1111C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1