Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6114d7db7d6ef0ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:05:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 851ebf93511d608d19be31aba3b0ffcd SHA-1: 553b6a028bd163190c2bb1d7fc23974d96e32ffa SHA-256: 6114d7db7d6ef0ef55b9e29daa63e148caaa83b7bbf680b8af47e76e22743b5c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to numerous PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of multiple links to external PDFs suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0aba5f7b3---49644774859.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/993ea18d475349e8c84634aa781f75a7/walefup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/vejimegikatosujekave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c60983859---54829600233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/14119464158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/11744094768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f589e679ef4b8305f04f87738a4cce6/34504323681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/63253757098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc94b3a760---60033772625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eedfde0a2b---ramirekabidarajegagudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/jubifud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb7e685465---lafatikolidulekefefiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca0d441680---89658018242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b698e5dc6b---53149726468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c579a1633e5---dularafekapopalip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910cd2a5de5---jijugixumako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/61748720360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/vamuxuwovonizixatoragox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607400654cf81---46960518080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b0a1bd63e---76044007020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1e0fa92a04e41f4e7913e2dd5142a2c/65145790362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/bosavoladolugat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9bdpdt4jdn13aoohv0dku3vj3/lonulubunizalujoxenov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/59799843265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=nse+top+losers+last+6+monthsPDF 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_off0000e5d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fde7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE7 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 07b939266baa00a14dffcc1c9a974d78fcb251b294b599d00e7f86f9478ffcfc
font_02_sfnt_off000115de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115DE 17256 bytes
SHA-256: 4c3fc29cdec0a501a9eca9eb691b9535cdd7065d12bf892d1801d2adf03f2f01