Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 004dc6d21706632a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 18:51:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d21fd02058ec2f3da0b932078e43d48e SHA-1: e86c4b154973a00980a8324e540cce88d30d4e9a SHA-256: 004dc6d21706632ab5ae3300dfb3a646589f755a61b629e1d528488118c5d700
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+build+a+big+survival+house+in+minecraft PDF link annotation
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb4456e9a4d7b7f5412e1bc481e4dda6/17802195286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf370acd33329f4beae3cbbc405b2604/86237396656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074493b2ad12---sexoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19f166e2a3942352e2e7ebb9fc47cdf6/72047381482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1e8fd5637---36116730255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charqueadaboavista.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de1d1442b7940da1989b46ad46eb7cee/74741470024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/26618504796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saovietgroup.com/upload/FCK/file/womifasetutalog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waroproject.com/file/35543289873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/wokejelijarabawase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdeb589285070787e501a9f825b6c969/37406810492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a115d671380---bodumogevinerin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3d42ac92c---1246272736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f3712b101---maweporut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96424b6c4f---72008640135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a942939ad4d---xuzodugujevekefitelarop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8824692214---8354195294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbtdhp12e65krvrcr0oegedp5n/muripivewokekibaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb30e7c374---2239663946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegofa.com/userfiles/file/19564787090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/zakediwarif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609439f876bbc---35113963256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/51980196378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f6e7d4ae7---78992048502.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_off000118d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D0 17036 bytes
SHA-256: 6cecbb2dcf0e345067e33fadca4044fbcde8baa43e5b327c2d080044809a65a5
font_01_sfnt_off00014522.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14522 11308 bytes
SHA-256: a714aefdcc0b7d19fdcfdf500ec7a2e5d953c43cd0c3de5a5a4ea81a8adb39bc
font_02_sfnt_off00015f56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1