Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6144b3b1fefda104…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:45:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d4f1f327472f6ac96ccdbe8bcc63cab1 SHA-1: 9419ac309817d7812072f30ca076fb8f658abf80 SHA-256: 6144b3b1fefda1040fef4cefe0d9fb4118067e91db28ac6db02be0e5af67630b
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 CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structure and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a2feab432---41643758862.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbbo3smq0mjm3n6s77aqg8v0it/zidunegejugusozomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/zagezitax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.disbel.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sewowazedewikiradas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/ruzobidosokisubofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/36802287026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poexali.org/static/image/_u/system/files/xugirokim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apisicul.com/userfiles/files/47152310922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klick-tipp.info/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/788480759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongxoanhdpe.vn/upload/files/53172900305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61a78709f7b5eb102aceefcd797febaa/71315641184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/xikoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb3c30290f---zisetovetavonififaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b6cbfb11f2---70188368091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210625064807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhr8vab46n5v58s8lougg1bhi6/23777578226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/73222065718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.com/contents//files/92178884169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7b206ead7---92353895103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongmao.tw/uploads/files/202108230859135007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehr-mittenwalde.de/mediathek/files/lawunozeruwotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/216581540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080652d2f160---40520302693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=different+types+of+characterizationPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2b989a7c7---53096741761.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_off0000dc99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC99 17456 bytes
SHA-256: a5c243278d959fbd464dfeca445215fa89523fcfd0052c3ee02e61691ed025cf
font_01_sfnt_off000109d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D7 10704 bytes
SHA-256: de526b2b4d06bfa3706c571946b2acd982e4710ae3f3f0543d22a459f98b1da0
font_02_sfnt_off00012275.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12275 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1