Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06cece53a782d548…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 18:18:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4e46eac80b87a321f89c857f95d8acfc SHA-1: 4dee3331fc875aa8f5f23e84a9c25863f79833e9 SHA-256: 06cece53a782d548102ef2cb67bead22ef15728d4a38bfa8bea7ff2c373e9d9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2556365845780c826086f8b429140047/56358333911.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f7c240e98---80135168345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c0f55273987f0d70afa13f3db662d3d/44969914986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf35f83b6d1---98030933891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/niroziwawiwozobuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2cea3a37ae---3565181891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/rewuvupojabapanexuluxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851c5eda924---lakimivaviwazomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/bavuvaduwetowobarafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897686da889---getowolubigezosuzegil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/fopikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/153396eeecd0262304c96b53b47b5851/pufeluvaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37c5ce6f891eb133691a3d64496b9bda/44476462776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/xemeganis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73836d73c9a3dfa16da5f22b9fe7921f/21290632479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072de9b7d9ec---65888516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/58991522121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gujaratisamajparis.org/upload/files/35643667415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/464edb00ln8if5nm0v115caprb/xorigone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ret1fjg12vht050c5s0t0tdfb4/48965556648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b501705d770---2824620962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalnetworks.de/www.galabau-poscher.de/main/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37963880485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/genux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fs33ei7p2u8se1mmes4i5da1b7/besikovel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kcequipment.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/160a6df84d0e50971c6454dd779d5586/75263058548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/wanozinaxiposidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=it%27s+going+down+down+babyPDF 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_off0000fa16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA16 17656 bytes
SHA-256: 4f5767818dbe67077c4b22380db58f375b476e4a0ef12a048ba808811559f34b
font_01_sfnt_off00012861.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12861 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 6a6d52d7b114b8259915c8962fc62aa1d2968e1ba85575ec68cbf48eab3a4a81
font_02_sfnt_off0001402c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1402C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1