Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6135223618562e81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-07-15 11:00:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ae9074e6f536c45f1ab23f05c01b5e45 SHA-1: 9ef8ff303e15bd654b166d185f03ca9b34a37624 SHA-256: 6135223618562e8178d2c1992f63b000a21bd45f46d9cdef71d5aa78e8cd0381
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards an attempt to leverage external resources for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://btcauction.vn/hinhanh/file/rukijidevataguwumezewigi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1a2cf0ab3e10904b19f3f22ac17575f/jazisunodowekabebisoduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51181135a02e04206cae710f95bbd561/jizupipepoxupejelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7571fc706e5726163249f09b5f6a29d6/falopokakuzewiwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/25240544928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c46a8436b---gapekapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852cb7a74e0---dobafaluralerog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/18545835315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onderdurdu.com/upload/ckfinder/files/93714727413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f61d68659d---34262603279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ad65be9bc4deb4483b2a75d24b7de45/65727850183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a40f32ff3---27767759452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termocasasrl.com/file/38573241836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67a152a431424a2a604a6c7952c872d3/parosivezodudodajeninus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e04ef2917acbdbff2ea8ea86a1e1745/83813651487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nprofit.hk/userfiles/visegaxisabekujepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raiporjai.com/piceditor/file/wudidakadibomika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/66366496423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67df363cc851674dafe98266d3f2a1dc/jikozazakosalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb02c59a28376f0de42c8f96d0d28e61/45355955032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhuh4t2822ueg15p47386sc1qa/jalusuvonafudexul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f773fc84b8b64f7cc612e67fe1683166/todopuxamejarutogurar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/videfolipefagenusemoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciarajewellery.com/editor_upload/file/18063228883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7lhmf3f7q4ute9ruu3c6huir0/polanodadejipepimoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=colour+personality+test+keystonePDF 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_off00010c16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C16 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001242d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1242D 10584 bytes
SHA-256: f694a004b26fd62c83c2398448dfd1f7adb410f268477d00a9a4e6245a1f41da
font_02_sfnt_off00013c82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C82 17480 bytes
SHA-256: 96924987d59bff072e0b4a4b5074388b931ebb970d74093fb2c521bdf55bc566