Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6000d7a7f64469fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:51:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1cb57ffc59b8e202a8a31a5aa2962d1a SHA-1: 9843e3561b7e6d6a277f0fb29508f939455af66b SHA-256: 6000d7a7f64469fc26815ab2e836ea101d22abc1e2f7467f6df8b3d61016b996
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nitrification+and+denitrification+in+the+activated+sludge+process+pdf
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab83eeaa09d---28471050605.pdf
    • http://fedime.org/imagenes/18384236458.pdf
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdrlu2164satle2s8a1tfv0958/linutidap.pdf
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92902b552---32272652864.pdf
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48b76a354b8f0fd2b46818cc1ee307b0/60598888918.pdf
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a24b31e75---jozanigebixajugepulam.pdf
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe37a6142d4357ed6da977e5fdd133c1/9321259429.pdf
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608112ddf4074---wokepimugiwadi.pdf
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/gadabewaju.pdf
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6b389bab5---guvuxasol.pdf
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc677bafc40---jitonorixazirukozijof.pdf
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87df96f9ca---rolawutof.pdf
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80d318845df6323157f2f0659a87bce3/36500137433.pdf
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d89eeaa077---75691368603.pdf
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/32555703373.pdf
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/lanusonekurenufixav.pdf
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/desapenurugowavoja.pdf
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210520165629_vxvv8m.pdf
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cdcbc12e64de95bdd88d64a62f04d7b/bagowukavinapibepok.pdf
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/rosunakojerufepizep.pdf
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dcee3280e---35772927947.pdf
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/42721434087.pdf
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/sudapokuzulobuzudiw.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c0ce.bin
56d498f54f27cea6f20f0d8dccbaa450291ff6b8a043903cb462a8d0178c4353
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0CE 11044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000da47.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA47 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f259.bin
c5dcf730e2f6e7a3e2639fdf2007144b9ae7ffaf383c01cf92764b03ebd50f73
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF259 16584 bytes