Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 606104b8ae5a0222…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:32:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 048e6ecf541978b6635ba86b49fd3792 SHA-1: ef51501a5ab1b0b5b00a80ead8f95c08651d8d16 SHA-256: 606104b8ae5a0222d3de3f7bf112c8d7b4b4a6dde6351d62bec1c69cfe734e55
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or scam campaign. 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 0.9960

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=retsch+zm200+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdjsp5lo3k7mi8bot94jrcd4t2/vumijizovofevam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/vimosagivevovikifodexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/mezexowutusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844048dc93f---maxubujuwigimirilapabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/4302810240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf53c608ba2---14621691140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-polyana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72931468716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42abc192b2---simape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4fb8d5e73---tevigugagotafuzuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3cc034199e---44129910954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08b14f4e7cd2509af2ab240ca572f646/81421147256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42f14a4e68d251118e78390d478c76b5/58653441691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32a4d24c84e792d03765c3ae2eae1fc4/92630829234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/zoradakakalosimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791d5a61afa---88114098902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105b7db2bd26---37762276105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thucphamchucnangmy.vn/uploads/files/11605672201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rodatopewezopor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duhochmis.com/files/uploaded/files/81272345841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161235bfb621eb---ruxobibesibotasol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://txextremecarts.com/userfiles/file/takedexajexet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be6a1f2b6fa---68022104525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absoluteanytime.com/media_file/files/files/98033711944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d9c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9C2 10632 bytes
SHA-256: b0af633979bb0335258e24155e3d973d3037b7cf92fb3f8ab8377b1a991dc41c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f20d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF20D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A1F 17960 bytes
SHA-256: 46e6d090ed47952e93bc0b763cc763ff095e4c59934fafb42c8dd13d9c007c76