Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6211b56c67c9eaa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 11:51:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: aab0d6a45ccd3d3bdf68ad97a8fd5c89 SHA-1: a42cc21c284309e70643fb2cf499cd60031eebff SHA-256: 6211b56c67c9eaa67018bed30caee82746df336b085fb9f1d9849c12fa5963fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These URLs are structured as a link farm, suggesting an attempt to lure users into clicking through to potentially malicious or phishing destinations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chronicles+of+the+gatekeeper+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a90502e4859---42323210216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c24bfb8b21cab30403eb59a0865ea1bb/bunezul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210703165855_3wo7r4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimalar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/96623004854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c023b3face5e335625bca5b214934ee6/81339924955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a983a1f100b---wanexovabewupirepudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ac0a6400861ded105cdfce548b07ec3/25832922077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tozidoximefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b480e5bfcc1---40225026522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esperanzadeavila.com/fotos/file/55919372680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sak3ick6tfrpeghd55klp69r8s/zorurofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/juropulojaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c87f0effb---metas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijasprojekts.lv/files/file/lazoxitezamudege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc279959cd---febomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/redelebawinitila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/ripoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18b7614c467537d1121ed25e6eda5297/xaredat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ka0e9p3bp9gmbsdap2u5nhctb5/naxusefekuraribujet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d47d8d4d8---bufofisonemitazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91d4ba1ccafa0268ed10212c2a4fab7d/33796519837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/jokiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdvvietnam.vn/webroot/img/files/77657255382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88bcb25102d6335b9eee1041cb32d389/tezenudaberanaf.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_off0000eb48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB48 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 5f41ae0d6aa21e3d7f3551c418c0e01ab8ae7ec86200ea0815dc9d87b69260cd
font_01_sfnt_off00011afa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AFA 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 0790c2fd8ce0af4c5df2a358aafb1a3204f0cde244f2a6834b8c2c106b9b36e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013462.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13462 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1