Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6cc5c460d685d2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 18:53:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fb1ee2c29103df6e8f38f1c0b2574117 SHA-1: dca45075492ac0a8d89ed84c0b147708e1fb2d67 SHA-256: f6cc5c460d685d2ec8f33e5edae0c1b773889089dd3c63b9b1ac8994693ada3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that likely lead to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of external URI heuristics and the compromised CMS upload link farm further support its malicious intent.

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=too+close+to+home+episode+guide
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client//imagesfile/10168128453.pdf
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-29/20210529081034748064.pdf
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ogd8k7b3hv2u8q4kb9tt3hoie3/61262914043.pdf
    • http://parcfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b3/b3ae52aef0329bb57e848b27182677c8/File/85797568852.pdf
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddf4882caa---11283438799.pdf
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/32489997756.pdf
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/nonutugafixala.pdf
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcfcb58d4d2---84433052376.pdf
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/posafoxibiju.pdf
    • http://constantemail.com/userfiles/file/1624271761roduxexir.pdf
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb41049d60---xavager.pdf
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8fr2mreus6dm75mjf2qcjokm7/20819239423.pdf
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dabfa48e17865b00b87757ac3169c31/75622968039.pdf
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/refuwulobitubijovidudijuv.pdf
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/46224818175.pdf
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713ceb7838d---jufinovanegavakazarewav.pdf
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a65c32bca---23509846745.pdf
    • http://atya.eu/files/file/70061218469.pdf
    • http://kennedy-jackson.com/clients/f/f7/f78508644b517540cdb1549d93860f53/File/mezipemowetaribuno.pdf
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bae51401288cb935c9299a2892fa018/77373993378.pdf
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/35620941837.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f038.bin
898436ae962d9843645acc2bfc8025447766e501a68f07cc204f2a5c80de5afd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF038 18120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011e69.bin
ad02a5a6ba7235a8462413735a1b306d40c6320ca93b4f98da03174de338486b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E69 10660 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001369c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1369C 16792 bytes