Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6e786f6e8196d2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 05:38:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: eba779c893f92231c2892837d0613af3 SHA-1: e7b17efb4ffdb4a79ad7bdaea881f8e56f17efcc SHA-256: f6e786f6e8196d2b9af7e897e2bfae4b80818560d613f0e952873250e34fa753
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or hosted on disposable domains, designed to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to trick users into visiting phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=imaginary+lines+parallel+to+the+equator+are+called PDF link annotation
    • https://hardlineconstruct.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tipesogujufup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausman.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/verasezofivukup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2sisaccount.com/userfiles/files/zevekewurorewudetituta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5f419c740cab0d82770a943a53aa852/vomuwobisujenijov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girisimhaber.com/uploads/file/37432525395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://breedlife.com/upload/files/sagulibisom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jv-cms.crazy-jessie.nl/uploads/files/zufafofapidave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--hjrnskadeakademien-mtb.se/userfiles/file/83495812463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/94331221328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hahapediatric.com/uploads/files/202109081428006231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/25443181875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhegazgroup.com/userfiles/file/sagafugutozerumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://free-note.kr/files/fckeditor/file/3779853161371bedee2bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truckersplantparts.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gufuzile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mathcountsoutreach.org/userfiles/file/pevaseduxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanzmendia.com/userfiles/files/22373387289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reklama71.ru/upload_picture/13565777687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.com/upload/editor/file/72083707281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613249f2416cd---nopewodunojarejal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tchid.net/userfiles/file/7289940063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/mabebujusat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mq-water.net/upload/2804043559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoaiduc.com/uploads/files/59438483422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c4889c7d10---32330523427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/004939dqeur7r9svp1c0q9b1l7/28102712542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thc.gda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tegazemidamig.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_off0000ebba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBA 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 7a56b3f372750d5dde20e05621f5d116a8ea42399551329b11858d98087de3f3
font_01_sfnt_off00010575.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10575 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D87 18532 bytes
SHA-256: 0a90ec53b2b0bdd556d6956468a4f8d7e6d028e05f0762dbef163551ea635aa1