Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 006f33f8e4ef0454…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 03:29:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 22f902c476446d254bb1a7030721ee78 SHA-1: 419fb5406129f2c86146322e6f2a117346d2bb0a SHA-256: 006f33f8e4ef0454de0ae08cebae60d12cf453542c4dc4f5119a590a433d68f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve to obscure the true destination and host malicious content or redirect to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082afb8a88b8---23203042179.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/601f28ac8dfec2634d2b36844c59b52a/68629359329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ced78460c---bekedefidomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c003461c6bb---27162924726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607465692b31e---xupiwupejapojodotuboton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links.com/images/blog//file/wiserone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fdab9c2dac---zutizomitobeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1bb0aa34badddca9e97102316dce052/24152116575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/11770866948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/81702566490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/buxeduzopoteven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/pixatosad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/056809344ed54da425f7811f29e8a63d/duvideduxisimiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/tixekefolexokikafezim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e823315f3ccb6bb5e4f2a077abdc961/dopovotisobexepigox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.ee/media/contents/file/67883503544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944ec881295---fudumejurujivaxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/69705579822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e96807b2b1---37815231970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09pd0ujicbfgm8n5k32gmua7v3/netijowow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bfc8cad928df129d7fe2cb9869fbdd1/piwonifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/mamurusumavaname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5af7365ce2---wilajosepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/vukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=parallel+graph+equationsPDF 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_off0000e8af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AF 17544 bytes
SHA-256: 8b691308d20dfff49cc76dd355fdfc391c305a85a7d192f401c23824a4694f51
font_01_sfnt_off00011681.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11681 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E98 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 1050b60023d3f649ae85cc9bc8f7360faf31566a7fef2a1a91e8c6bda81ca508