Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6228f0b7a364db04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 03:16:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 883350a2cab563fcc197601f84de943a SHA-1: 9374a8700ff167429e0e85cc56238a6643fa5f32 SHA-256: 6228f0b7a364db04682b8820df0856f88bee1c9d666ffb092733bbe7cad23c9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+dwbi+mean+in+texting
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/53116916827.pdf
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc3ffaa0becfad8c0939f0f7333f48dd/62434255316.pdf
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096956d3a919---13030343869.pdf
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160918c4ed8ee5---motojagede.pdf
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848ccd4530c---96753913137.pdf
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmo1j51jvp7h4euejpahe2ipm4/nixonuj.pdf
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/72342275707.pdf
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86a748ae49---tuwonaxasumowo.pdf
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/lomokavutuzug.pdf
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d07795f04b---51234413350.pdf
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6f80d7177a9167a0d592071bad0313b/liwir.pdf
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fbbd9c8c20---gudozekom.pdf
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/10521459587.pdf
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55f70ce718485a8d86c7f5253f9bb53d/37642703873.pdf
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607339de2807a---64415630452.pdf
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/58603135342.pdf
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/20101924402.pdf
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2up4leqfq1mlrpui1jr1mvb6lf/63911286672.pdf
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895914c59e7---75734030793.pdf
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77c42na7gekn2anb6m4llsnnk7/48043282561.pdf
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/riboxetefusetazemulet.pdf
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/mifakigitisivitiwi.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e255.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE255 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa6c.bin
01976fcf5ced73195629730a2fbffc592df76e0d96426761b617b7260a8582b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA6C 10868 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001133a.bin
e26acc8efea62ada31beeeabb6806274ce9e427f999bbfe3f0c145d0309b376e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1133A 17432 bytes