Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6c5b12e6c839c0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-08-07 03:05:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5b61744784436754d085940988f13808 SHA-1: b9309b13ee8d1ac60014a4fb67a57e3b4c04535b SHA-256: f6c5b12e6c839c0ee85742ba8e0887558b8d841ff0e62edb644d97bd14c1fa56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or phish for credentials. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the overall detection profile strongly indicate a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e330ce7baad---lokazewofikovipi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/pujukafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f26dddf6267dbbb5962d88da81c5577/6234529207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaziogluenerji.com/images_upload/files/64073872833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestmanassas.com/uploads/files/lonasiwozamokibabolakivuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e1b74e9399cb05485f1e6c45f1645da/99353347230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08b1565d0310fc193e769ca80a971651/jimezazokifoxuxakelusafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grotech.in/userfiles/file/zuxiwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66549495898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuonghieutoancau.vn/uploads/files/pufozizevis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/56509480012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19egp6apm9n58gusm0qt3lvoo7/fikajivivuwuwafopadenuxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuoitre.bacgiang.gov.vn/lib/ckfinder/files/96800482607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamantina-joaillerie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68867639258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/94968692804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/loxadizobivilun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160debb27c593f---dibilepetenilozida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609afe58bb55a---lebitefewiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://underbutter.cz/download/foto/xopiwimemezutolaxojuzudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/60681963551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/javupulapifirulelewuzaruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b44d679ba---84113022209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e56613bf22---lamev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e70a6c9f57899c35c34b0c5787da6bfd/wuwojemupabowirawubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=krunker+io+hack+redditPDF 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_off0000d622.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD622 16924 bytes
SHA-256: 556f991d14bb92831a1b062569fa858ae0642791c25dc2b46c873eac575b82d0
font_01_sfnt_off0001027e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1027E 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 4ba4cf0e697472cda8adaf14e9b52441b0d07bd8c99ae8392417dd64529b560b
font_02_sfnt_off00011a17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1