Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6d4fa0c0de2eeb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-08-20 15:05:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 3e968fcddf06ab49011a061d0038d138 SHA-1: eab6df92ecaea81366a4ec3f0d6da15c4baf4b06 SHA-256: f6d4fa0c0de2eeb4078279852c0b3260cc1d62adff71c771b5e50d112dc5bf5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a large number of external URIs and link farms pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be redirecting users through these links, likely to phishing pages or to download further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive use of external links suggests a social engineering or redirection attack.

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=life+in+the+spirit+study+bible+niv+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/redupataxenurewabenid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119a6183bd64---tixoxigowowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/files/72297512953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79d418d8ef8f4afc56401d8327c2aa12/ritatatotiwejuxuduvevax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abd60838ef4daf710d7079639275a24d/13132074704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleni.cz/userfiles/file/temufavuxejitelugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mav-auto.ru/images/file/nebut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084599e8211c---lojudanoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salukool.ee/upload/userfiles/file/vusuwuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rrqkb2et5p305mb5bgr3c22evf/gipejexowawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766ed56824b---24779672898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fio1pbp49e3komc0r42ooipp5/tilak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/39760353787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/durobuloku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df2880bc74---51890648805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guijek.com/userfiles/file/xumesupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dee310a8925d14597aec7063685e331/16055081563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6ae643bdbf---vinawap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbdec4e10c2003466d02024cd0d934a0/titosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/kojavafelezabenu.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_off0000cca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCA2 16636 bytes
SHA-256: af5c93fc581d67b9a85a1da23b73a0cefc981df471ee0624b733e2a0698b2669
font_01_sfnt_off0000f807.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF807 10692 bytes
SHA-256: d459105f4179e8479b5b78b6cb4f138d684227c336e1828d517f0a6173cb4af0
font_02_sfnt_off0001103f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1103F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1