Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c6abfd8a6016ad9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:08:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f32a7ec35e5c494df8139e209f6f8629 SHA-1: cf7af375343c55f578ad40559ad83dd1e2a99c98 SHA-256: 2c6abfd8a6016ad9edc44d7d87337d8287d75a8351728fd7cefe7f5515021508
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and a raw IP address, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF's structure and embedded URIs indicate it is likely part of a phishing campaign, potentially exploiting vulnerabilities to execute further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4bbb58c490ba020aef605f3219f0549/55281339142.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/509869b41e0e6b059c0c59b08b7b9182/fapuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/volenumezovitelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eb23e6bdd637f11d5a8b696235a5328/gawisesudisawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b2a6adf7ad---22026708901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/045ee124da9730d4d79128e5ca69ff80/wevuzetadiwibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukrarnakolbaba.eu/obrazky/files/fubumilejuxepomitemux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpatswatertown.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61367197610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/bataren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a192ee2fc42---jotifaginorexegufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmbbq.com/uploads/files/fatusuwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf4f95c98e6---70057349653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shidoremicrosys.com/media/859146419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9b4b08f11---96776441163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161296e18756fc---32084580954.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1622894660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/8116695220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc64b21c4b6f3ea47a59bf42c8858dac/29675825343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf395043998---58811992479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/52286042782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munis-roquesalbes.cat/demo/vilalba/imatges/file/mudupafapaxamifimakoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116b84424cc8---bawarepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=split+pages+from+pdf+online+freePDF 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_off0000d7a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC0 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 69cfc9be4bba276762ef6582f7a6363fbcfc583cbbee705bc812a5ff3b087495
font_02_sfnt_off000108c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C2 17784 bytes
SHA-256: 6652c7dc27b6933b30f9700b5dd58ae49b604163c6092c0355bce569af270a08