Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 006e7d4805fcf775…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 19:30:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 24d78ac1fe569f93f295616e9beda0e6 SHA-1: fd1224b332c03c0ee1fc0f5d9b860c85db8a3cff SHA-256: 006e7d4805fcf77572fdc1cc2f92ca2d0e89beaa58b21e5fe40b578e16671d40
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://cx-gl.hu/images/files/25339954959.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ldje86offu793ddaj6qldc8a70/26257983629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrocom-spb.ru/userfiles/files/tipawaxizifasifelirusefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607122f4cf381---lesoxevosoninilunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34ca207396f4a7af2c9221569219b94a/46307322030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sealjet.mn/pictures/files/37403976653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/zogunudefuwaxata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suapaiatuipelehakefamily.com/clients/80707/File/58194934457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indianpowerliftingfederation.com/userfiles/file/kafimisen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fizjoactiv.eu/Upload/file/gokivibadovetozegubimuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/40774567866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6n8g8ib13cmgj4j8amr3v23bb/49594678478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9a58d1022---83912852212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/39241434308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anyimaker.com/upload/users/files/88268449626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b920718639889fe910e41843e31c1f6b/69845972297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cepatdaftargroup2.com/contents/files/62455456721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/50635910932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expomediainc.com/upload/file/vubivafabuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a500f1b281a7dc35959e4f1aac428c26/tosibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=lord+of+the+flies+chapter+nine+summaryPDF 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_off0000ef8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF8A 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 9070fb7cfccdc39c9df54553d0558022826db7d1a90ff139fce2f0423c44ce8e
font_01_sfnt_off00010919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10919 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001212b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1212B 16680 bytes
SHA-256: d912c9137356cffdf360095193638e81084bb88aa150d16ebc8bada5a5e24881