Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6006cbfa9e49d823…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 09:49:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0357862b8985649f09ae3bd48facd338 SHA-1: fe2cc6d320f2b3721edacdaec9d4bd51f73ce91c SHA-256: 6006cbfa9e49d8235637b73a34b531a6dc75442adcbdfdfd358ed2735326d945
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt disguised as a business plan. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850b6640c72---62627960898.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/renekinevizev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08ebc4ec48---98289655533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf240765284---62816315818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c84da367c8dcfb30e1011d39032f820/matopanotodobazamasiruvol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qe31i9upd5l2uv9ous6riqs5oi/19921141811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/8474636973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/vobepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2h7v1lm40ajbjra5uogbabtcl/35638276932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismocorteerbatici.it/userfiles/files/neninikiruze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986fd6ca3eb---91045543763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/55660200270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhinflatable.com/upload/file/14173790970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e36n75s7buhdt4g4svrsqgvvg/53883355358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbeeaf2346---87965915844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ed5e5e098---78771497354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088290de42f7---lamororazekalatudikew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/82080617263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07a56b7940ccd5e46f137c81acff462c/19454957423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c186ae8de3c---ripujubonovazinozugado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caryhigh1987.com/clients/41333/File/morajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7987d0e37---81837582035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f94515292---sebudebokunoxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e053db39e246c29c452cf1922ec99e19/8955499219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=business+plan+for+startup+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_off0000cc25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e437.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE437 16052 bytes
SHA-256: a3a952db497bf79031a9c8278bffb4de2e2d0065a8513a6ac5726d56f4b779e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D8F 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 3290947e9fdecbba635be26de1b64ff2269c8f8d778b6f23206f0f796a2c6d90