Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6ea0885ccd2a124…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:32:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6769f25d19d3f55e80033cbe23a7b882 SHA-1: 5df5d2d472e12959d6356d33e7ad1c4d81eb71dc SHA-256: f6ea0885ccd2a1240db07c3e463ba6e37be0cf7684ec33307a43ec1b7c270dea
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including being image-heavy with minimal text and containing numerous links to external domains. Several heuristics indicate it's a link farm on disposable or compromised hosting, designed to redirect users. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to facilitate further compromise through the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 70 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=trigonometric+integration+rules+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/zapesilidilakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cotg3khh1n69rrpv24fhc9nfj3/31782632392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasanmasat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovenixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giadinhmedia.com/uploads/files/15818855557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/31767627896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternsheep.by/app/upload/file/46515464981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modulobase.com/userfiles/file/nilijodanutup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-foundry.net/d/files/japara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.fr/ressource/site-image/files/31400186687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072561219e50---vifejofodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/5742614450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplolux72.ru/upload/file/dosamikepenezijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/78175075775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kga-am-adlergestell-ev.de/kga/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38843943712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b3492fd72---97016052187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/53255185929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwsalisbury.com/uploads/files/94535489038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/3556103973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d0a4bf855---zamolumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacionecla.org/resources/original/file/6260305897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/it0p8ek1j2m21hbtkiqclt30i3/15704170546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/mamenawufedosafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/50752347585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c2360d3b1---fororumilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desushibar.com/userfiles/file/timunanavixawenelimokulom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62ca9b1e2f1592b195ceaf473b54ae94/13460245005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc4267db07477e096c06bcf1d77e6d5d/giwox.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_off0000b81e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB81E 13932 bytes
SHA-256: 08e63c7d25287f3ef7e5a2ddec45962fea849af29e954cecf6033e57cd6bc8bc
font_01_sfnt_off0000da45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA45 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 091c75920305b24f00c6e96f4ef64a80ea665e82945a66f23f996f1eefd4e29c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1