Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6063e142b5bac03f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-06-24 06:09:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: d55ab80dcb54617a0798a9890f048d53 SHA-1: b433b3d59955ae33dcc6327f407b6362c0d3270e SHA-256: 6063e142b5bac03f7e508cff7cc7775e2a7f762d1e604ce6b668268542efafe8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b1ff57ebf---zebojejifutedenazavoda.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e0b62781c0811d594d20a4e1d29b99a/ledidaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accountingworld.in/singhania/downloads/file/88467512920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bc3cea6afb1aaefec82d26d9a170727/poxawizejoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/72384183348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c3eca8dc0dfe1fe1de631560658c123/lufix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/tivemiwatapamefizix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607174485fa88---subofijelikokudupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16090f0ec1aebe---tezupejegegaputebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b7e388f40891098a49f0c7bdbef14ee/17023819295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1964j2rdhc6euioe3p8her4no7/49041711540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43dc1826d8cb00f019017ffd537b5ecb/77164231286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.in)MeeraRegularMeera2016SMC7.0.0+20171102HussainIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.inhttp://smc.org.inIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=tamil+learning+through+telugu+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • https://gitlab.com/smc/meera/blob/master/COPYINGIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off0000e0b5.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE0B5 19728 bytes
SHA-256: adce15e1335c8ae0fcdb259ae5e2d814c9a090c510491a047d0c9344ba85adfd
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF20 5224 bytes
SHA-256: 272399fd5004102679268e8b2497b18e9a92d64e4be91a2fe95c33ba2abdbef3
font_02_sfnt_off00010b65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B65 4624 bytes
SHA-256: 2f3b3d1e2cc296ee9e5c276d19e74b39b4d0a967ed8cd2ef2ca5f2fb86be010a
font_03_sfnt_off00011c69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C69 7440 bytes
SHA-256: 1cc712b8889a258d683998fd5b2a67b4e3152b821b75eea766953ad5da30d92e
font_04_sfnt_off000132f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132F3 10464 bytes
SHA-256: b2c0bcb289c8638d96b1a05b22007e03459bcebc3ccefc3cc59eff09833d4368