Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6cd7e22abe8ecb9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:14:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 66137d873286064258a1a080d8cf31a6 SHA-1: 6296c822fc2a7506278aec7bdf75d9d9258c2e2d SHA-256: f6cd7e22abe8ecb96fc60d3446662114412f442f0d6607175b68628b046b09d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to external sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structure and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/govepojetepurazabenuno.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0629fc25f6733117a69f1cc6563277f6/luzupagiwezezoxebofesujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607335a72ed0b---61874346373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/wisoxosun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruitssupplier.com/app/webroot/img/files/foxiwetubukujag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317596dc0e5---25233794101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bcda642b4---dotatewonipebanozodubok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/guluruvuwegajekiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0621f400cec3a5fb2ee1f03298d6177f/83555799687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0cdb65e03---sapugezopazijexop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/670d3cb6899a9e9e0737bfcb372ef3d4/jajujijawumumixev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35157fd22ac497974dba0d7dc231fd9e/59118180643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160950f4e723ad---repakodakobiditedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a60e6cdcf6a05af5dbcd64f8a4a0442/kafanobazumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/27233293334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121310e1b837---getuzanuxogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8b36dbd588980aad49bb5b983f31aed/48657756925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06077da46ecc2fd631628ba8971df3f6/mubalisejotokajasileti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/11310188785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5de4ec5a2f18d9ac06d833fbe4a19b29/wabemarifuxipijiwimusasor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/782a7669a2e74ac8887e0f55885c822d/55418599622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=on+board+diagnostics+in+automotive+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.thc.gda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50553350256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fd22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD22 17456 bytes
SHA-256: f84431e655a44666eba17eee0da6e37b68d26d4def37cc04033d421c53da4750
font_01_sfnt_off00012a84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A84 11248 bytes
SHA-256: d89424d3fc50594904f403a8cfe17133e5f0ce230ee18bf5f1192ec16bbe961c
font_02_sfnt_off0001448f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1448F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1