Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6c8bfba68e4de81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-05 00:35:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c359e533b7214b5d4d7a027ba262671e SHA-1: 471565e334c26c495aaf6c2abc74ec0bd92c7895 SHA-256: f6c8bfba68e4de81d2a5728802bc947d3d63d99bc23eecdbe12450066d7045d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple compromised websites, many of which host other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://monyetmesum.com/contents//files/zudumetoje.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/58580255244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3adf0928bef57cc4b5b24ef515bb0df6/31273600209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5839a869aff952390ec1213cf0691111/95735957111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75420701343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c374f0b6e0---18469760183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziledusanepagoduwugupogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/sijija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607032deee3fe---84891350401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2466065c2---56750468481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebpb3dd6p84tctpj6g3lhv4in5/12524167642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794a25cc084---96122721806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/40971414585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/24913015076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984c7a24cda---tadegapeveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/gubigoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607662999a6b9---tomaliwetepos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biotanika.pl/upload/file/18969918474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesfeesdelhetre.fr/upload/files/54551587851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d0707c7742ff0badfc192d7ecc24943/5370264614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3768b6e1c6742ad3164e05fc02750030/jamewilegobidaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=daily+homily+for+todayPDF 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_off0000f91f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF91F 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 6058ce3bd166d5a8332c27dc0a1a20bb217c2a62d88656aa69275f0098c121e8
font_01_sfnt_off0001105e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1105E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12870 18192 bytes
SHA-256: f531d36ae3f9483486da4c2403f46205a57fb213d49f7040555dbace25fd0222