Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6131fa684fb75f72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-04 12:02:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8036daaeb70e71634128bb38bf819f1e SHA-1: a956a3c49559bc055d5640af5d65d717b9a977c6 SHA-256: 6131fa684fb75f72dcf9c23265c7eaeaa2deac9acfdd5369054fb73184f55753
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a high likelihood of malicious intent, potentially leading to further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac03b442edc---70473141674.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df62b42595---24360293427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e20ed53e992652cb24537709caa5f2b3/ritiwumakir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megashina24.ru/files/files/23005024263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lysfyyy.com/upload/files/64552611317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9f04fda09b---40658479416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdbed225fdd---tumefufiwegodubimewonewij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/421iopq723c8h5llmsfrt5g9s3/xazarixefakisulijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5167ba28ee---66260755026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2pr3ru6fss6qppl5knrvf1u6v7/babinunubimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medi-sen.com/files/files/87319850186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1sjgs4ij603svqlljiokv8e8ct/79255741978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotel.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/53797476975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/domowunewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/91223481054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/68209498112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210522223016314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/96458238656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mzr-avocats.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zasisubuwodidosuzeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbfaf571aa---10529426798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/311db90ede5b4eb89c0bc33e0664b0e1/82694044426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b84224704---54152241671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021052921332313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2f1a71054c---53954103535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ffe3419c68679095affbf7278ae4cfb/xigusepevanosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc6c744650---4655901993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1d514745705e9f24ebb955c8572faa4/kafaxutevibepixomareka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=double+c+cup+boobsPDF 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_off0000f69c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF69C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010eb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EB3 10052 bytes
SHA-256: eb33c5c77254b12c68055f55089cd865c7c880eab6aaeb50a28f0803141745f2
font_02_sfnt_off000124f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124F0 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 51797d6e7400cab9bac0a72231eb3ba723b12c202e841d528cc9c7aaa07c0cfc