Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6de211dee31f942…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 08:52:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: af5845ce25df56ec3ed04dc61d58c064 SHA-1: 933788ea7b763b3c2af0fda24ad4cd199535632a SHA-256: f6de211dee31f9420356f4c83437b240aba793e90effc74a0a67c6ccf4e5de06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a spearphishing attachment designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83c6fa869e357db7a88a4fca54f5401c/guwanedexufogasa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://phoiinnhiet.com/images/uploads/files/folenubokunifopuvikisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/gojepekikepepasorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a586f504a4e---76053826010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8a572cfc3---wubepunixoruvava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abff941d3dd419918f8a3b9248ad1808/38385440582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/svdrjiqcnord85ovnia9e7a1ne/64538455673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdmsrl.it/userfiles/files/nowosukibiledunazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bprq5lob2gkl4p02oqmjqr3ok5/59648745202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1868b01963cc16a09d71e2e8f0be8ec/91711704760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f8b4088be0---19426287720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greathorserider.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26855474679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22c2c9378772a82de3c85b31f162eade/77249857997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregor-biffiger.ch/userfiles/file/xeluzuwasokorilit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetaihyundai.net/upload/files/69996637855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e0db57f70---dirorisukojirugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f44e57db167326bf201bf3a8b15a0a7f/wimuter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/891dd2041adf77d1d76c1c74a4efcee5/pebewagutot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cee8105e03c96e0d1ce14e6e400012c/89465361905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airfa.it/userfiles/file/53826301493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/tovilibalen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malverne69.com/clients/a/a7/a743c233813d1a1dbf5c38c484d85cdc/File/75526557537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608116d961fc4---52941098174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leuphuotcamap.com/uploads/image/files/bavilis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/siludutolirukarakulilut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+scan+a+document+and+save+as+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_off0000ef65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF65 17784 bytes
SHA-256: 2a68009ecaed397377edb8d6089f6aaa5b513e82753ebe9d0e2cb93efc4aa4b7
font_01_sfnt_off00011d04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D04 10784 bytes
SHA-256: aa1f6ea290c4547b41aeec6e278efce3d92df8fa66c55e45e8942c3cb83f757b
font_02_sfnt_off000135ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1