Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6c1c0a757ebda6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 17:31:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 605a52c8d5e6e97a9ee6c6cb780d61aa SHA-1: bb59d644c058d3bec9052b8782e9290b253caaa3 SHA-256: f6c1c0a757ebda6fbd00a6e7f7bb55889c9c059c7fbdf145d9ae7c4ee6ce4760
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a secondary payload via the embedded JavaScript.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://firegallery.ru/img/upload/butosijojarox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/mitavakabevizanodifetut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/78573030748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138795a77116---rawavabone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perechen-izdaniy.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/galofakenomuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/4431935412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131313d652e8---36106059120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nivaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usa-ex.com/images/blog/file/zuxiwitaposipigadiwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togclick.com/media/userFckfiles/file/siviziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ihdbd.org/upload/files/71215693975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338c99196c3---98827952961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocenfis.es/uploads/assets/file/4264255926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektor-bezpeki.com/userfiles/files/50177221120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buildingexpertsdirectory.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11899434267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/58089465205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugrctrani.it/userfiles/files/79065558270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodexgida.com/uploads/files/xosasotusoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classtool.info/upload/files/87330485393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/posemetuwotibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/134fdff2317acf3654cd3f2a7d88d12f/bujojuniredon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasz-pap.hu/UserFiles/file/gevuviropazolusez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/totef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertbah.si/files/file/30570824661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=oxford+picture+dictionary+english+chinese+pdfPDF 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_off0000c18c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC18C 17200 bytes
SHA-256: cabef6d80083f3e87451f2977243dbe8109cb4d7921a0c899e38a37afcfb52da
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010696.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10696 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 33d05a02f2574805018779752faa313cd0e800e4283310e388d6f11378c39e3e