Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6d86f7fd5398cfd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 08:49:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 22bc4ca26d09e8e6191073457e058079 SHA-1: 1bc0e8c583c9007919e4874957a3c39b33fbf7df SHA-256: f6d86f7fd5398cfde0d2cbfd495985c5f1144b52c401aa8f50854a808a48f110
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing page or malware download. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, with the PDF being identified as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607d0ecd4145e---forugemevofaxejugob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1abc965f57---3402567157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenhquangcao.vn/uploads/files/vixukadebejelaguwosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f533dfb76---4020860215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9bcde9d60---sapafukamege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070360de00cc---garonalurisetajegef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/sirasibes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/23413630001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/23788006799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pt5ioauo5p5rtnosq4cugruhs0/rojozumid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad40b0koclmt2l0pisgbvdj8du/54381978806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ji-tien.com/userfiles/file/dofejokexuzakapuvukitese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8c495f0af2accbaa4cbc6c153721b8d/64647260175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0fc579277213d2e2af7011c43a19835/tazegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/xawukawefubovavetotuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/56944836006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080614d71d81---pewas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108d8610ff81---20311035056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnationwide.com/userfiles/files/70930101338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792aeb3e108---robilokobizaravamegomefen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be40816cdd3---47570828915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/xozinefewezabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160cc8d8baa1fe---napixikuzeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=vitamin+b12+injection+pdfPDF 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_off0000c3d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE5 16580 bytes
SHA-256: c24ef713842c2dbbdb9e8dc8900b379adc098726471d621d94a80048c7a464d8
font_02_sfnt_off00010692.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10692 10880 bytes
SHA-256: e00657ed42d5a1f1acc4fc1c125b59d7ad7a333c81d0827958efc97731ec4eba