Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6c4cac6233e60b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-07 09:20:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: bed207ecd501ecbb1e2ed3fdad6df60c SHA-1: 3d3619bc191f83dc893d1c8e69b0e371807aaa01 SHA-256: f6c4cac6233e60b0775ebc939ac78009f492c5ba7c3701c78550ba075aaaae60
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites. The presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, strongly suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://babamoleskine.com/files/file/xubupipononuvuzejoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://csc0311.com/userfiles/file/20210616112921_egpspt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shortguycentral.com/ck_uploads/files/pigibizakuvawoxisuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ddd92b2d2---60541894362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesurmakina.com/userfiles/file/96058659602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getampedmag.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xurukevojobemobisigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05c049d474---10848975937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/88593804722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd37b1828a8---71944108232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hifjuj5q11ctepmav65kv7co3/17638110115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solmoda.it/userfiles/files/50480812089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c496134ef67e4a719798587655b683f/rodawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/23310289199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/lezijukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aea4bf84ce2---lilaputam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072191194168---17177258127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b65807658---41503217373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/pujeribabakonod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f59ec7e15c---rikokurusedozajeriguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6199478b0deeb3b57f1afd1e89c42d4e/46134303549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heninrealty.com/userfiles/files/wutojagusajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3cca23157b---xazerorufekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jn5aa1shp5a6m2c6eirei5s12v/79940517152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=css+page+layoutPDF 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_off0000f129.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF129 17656 bytes
SHA-256: e11c3ff5a060655dc9b85f158f5b7092c961aa13e1383e896b65f7d23f095a2b
font_01_sfnt_off00011fa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FA6 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 34e46b4cc8b9e7b8f6be965d2637ff34dc0a4585624187b8646b9b7e60b8a6a6
font_02_sfnt_off0001375c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1375C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1