Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6473b259c2f01d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-08-17 03:23:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 1cbed2d69fa88640820278151bda72be SHA-1: e246df91ff1a7bef84e53caf2aad7382902de615 SHA-256: f6473b259c2f01d27d1f73f235f411160c65adb9fd71c095df9be96014468f69
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the PDF and the presence of external links indicate a likely attempt to deliver a second-stage payload or conduct phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+fastest+free+vpn+for+iphone PDF link annotation
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afab0b9d3305eed93c98164cff52290f/49333602420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrokentakifinan.com/resimler/files/vogukabisigimilawaberaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/60678274575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210609_CF738809EC3B9F49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e292d2463---14681485874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluiettgriffinwilliams.org/clients/2/2a/2accc941c041fffeac9751862bb8fe41/File/ludubemubemiwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bae3b58c5bf---94631421223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0cca90b38e---71935860314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765da43d80c---kasabagerusagurirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad34e4af385---49703648883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715d9a315bf---bokunifona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/29597985186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qg8tcgmt3gf182s658b6lgcgc/86520160194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/835354eee324b3a9cdf5e1ae17ae1803/mekagoromenunanibumabuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/jexeparajugadukexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baggiez.net/userfiles/file/tupevunezuguseti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66maj7kqd07s0u1cojflao0ud6/33407694344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://falconshipping-uae.com/userfiles/files/42021674313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edaba34df5c---piwowujafexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/topagukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/65098168792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa41c52de8c---lelixavefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetcasatenovo.it/userfiles/files/81095201390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-beauty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fojipurolilebawetegofigur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915c4d7e11a---kerok.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_off0000fb00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011317.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11317 10468 bytes
SHA-256: bc3cbdd044990a7d20c82d7b415c3f54c58579a46da85e4950c368b43faf1ae0
font_02_sfnt_off00012ad7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD7 16968 bytes
SHA-256: c3526ea4547204dd0033fcb12a7dd0f5ebcd4156524f9d75b85e09994768c68b