Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c6dda9fb341706a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 01:53:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0e5d098080a9df7c1de507eb89017a62 SHA-1: ebd3e67e3f79123d5ccc29537059e2d13320e964 SHA-256: 0c6dda9fb341706a59966056a2d6d7f24d05984f04ea261c2dc758ee94a7e3af
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 WordPress sites with 'super-forms' plugins, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

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 https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdab09fc0fe5d992fc9ea5b595b4805d/22468528059.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://z500.si/files/xejafijukovapikisiwefadid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fhv1slr34a6o6ob4cev5mfg4ob/xutenugegibizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55865d82a297c478ca2638a6ed71e845/6604025578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35614e5b6e8e42e16bc2c4ff4df1460f/kedojuxupofunesaxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareu.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pejijodosepomujani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/53851581868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a778cb523d---16755492505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cloud-tutors.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f093d8ef5a8bdc5abef3dfff86f28436/62057750577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b6c60338f---57057939679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-16/20210616003856170697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/rudave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hiljmqufjrvdepobr6gorncg0/fufavubejenumenada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/77356953156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f2a9877ad---naxalidiguvutogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/gunopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/zabaroritogunipuvaxanit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86d078fb14468b6ba29c46d942035b5a/96361970914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e11bbd30d220e28648ff4b33755dc53/davakexegonokiwopolejep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/makimesulavoxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6e8ca38f4---zegibaburopilorunaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b62698354---vowovudituduto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawrence-spruill.com/clients/42275/File/bawibuwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jl5mrfqg4o06ld9dmd1q7g7dg4/xikol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf7dd9d078---50298667143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+quality+toolbox+second+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000eaaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAAA 16572 bytes
SHA-256: 93c3d031794ef7672c1a48e52faee24b4a529c0e7954d7fc4a4350c240fd0348
font_01_sfnt_off000115a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115A4 11180 bytes
SHA-256: fed19308415617eee697bf27740b0e8550c7b3ba27517106601f02656e4906a6
font_02_sfnt_off00012f5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1