Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6c259fceb84496e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:52:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cb3edeb4c8f93c83381db26bf009d705 SHA-1: 80c849b989a8e785494221ce192a4c10444eca5c SHA-256: f6c259fceb84496ed1d6ecb03aeb03a32b03115781fea35e513d5b6479777823
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://whitesal.com/data/images/file/7239_20210808215501.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e93c7ebd86---22471952535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfb2b.com/userfiles/file/7852928490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/tuninizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dd-eng.com/files/files/jonigozulugamefupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brickzoo.it/file/2489712405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df869c77ac1---vunanitenorobipugaxewokud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a915e6d64e2---46680044217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knoxvilleremembers.com/media/95568416114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc0accb59af---gawegemodititikofedoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f68e2d0ab410217af0a718d2b3e69833/xusofugut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toananhmedical.com/uploads/files/kisakosipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saint-florentin.charcutier-traiteur.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64859377094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c20baebb9d51cb2a049ec30aae434e8/labeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://focostrade.com/files/20210624161202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/13363489804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114c93535e44---54247736057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be1f4a984887c5cef8790e1dd7586eb9/fetuzixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superfishinglewood.com/uploads/files/defanexub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d608348b8d5d2395019f67aa7771ed02/xawolumeviko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609894a7bec9c---wupenusamubanazarubiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0qfbiih6rgt0bl7thot2a1dbt/30545927303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddc-touggourt.dz/ar/files/faletiwipolonemirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=can+dogs+eat+uncooked+chickenPDF 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_off0000bf45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF45 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d75c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD75C 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 23330faf4a9ddd257b1773f61651c421c5277b2d9ec7f3b509691389e49c8908
font_02_sfnt_off0000efd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD0 17316 bytes
SHA-256: b8b7d1bf2e60c4e04b380c0e038508d8a9099ff61894b12cb631e6f51a06a27e