Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6030d2e2f1a47753…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:45:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: fbd208a61b42af52538eeb46a524c5bb SHA-1: db623451ef08af311be8c6fdeb7f9cf079cf289f SHA-256: 6030d2e2f1a4775335b98a90d51e4029851f2cf6e17e932cab37ad24221ab2ad
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver a phishing payload or exploit. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL findings point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4fb164f28---xikukigejimujunefunog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c1c10ee0c---legibugigubosudujunixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//73253618120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f2cfba510d69cf9e0c78aa615e172ab/27157151217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ccc2c1201---16842200635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d66c53a966a---2990679687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/pemukujotusofeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://applexin.com/ttpsea/files/file/24808224859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/88682225273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jtg6ltttbc4jhhp06q14i9jnv0/zaxakegivixasipomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/270882e196f321ca597f00b36da9dbe6/fipapuzuresakigilapis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c5c6d5b1ab4ee09b7c07cd20118daf5/favapijenupiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e72e2029c---xitile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16097c5ca48943---81452178170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08cce62e4b504f21b68ba68104e05d9d/56335513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f935dae7a0---67836080337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/tejaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/22096283037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/vuwemevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46ed18e667ec64050a86fc06d53865ef/4135931941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbaece6k1016apvvn3fkf2msf7/11556163140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chouchouphuquoc.net/upload/ck/files/dumolenupikakaxavopovup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsclassof1959.com/clients/a/a7/a7a82b2a6025f7fafce5d77be70bf845/File/jelidafuluwaxiwetonizew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/juderibogupifupanowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jrdllperv9bhmdnn00sph3fq1/tunifibal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a3bb70deb---miliriveziduvowugofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=selling+stock+on+stashPDF 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_off000102b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B0 17828 bytes
SHA-256: 4fd6bd6d07d7da6ab77bc4395756923f897a290c2b7d3474af562e5a054d0686
font_01_sfnt_off0001317e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1317E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014995.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14995 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 6075c0d6cdffa4e6b76b08e28c351fbefce8d991a16462c2afc0144dbcdd7f77