Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6274e4548a7f3c3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:31:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2c9112079ffea84d80df78b51c716a4e SHA-1: bb73a77b6b0ec28e1a42aaab7ea1197e4e72a913 SHA-256: 6274e4548a7f3c3ca1955fb0970fdcdb3f84e34bf609378c38a2c2fc02b8f70e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to infer the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://www.biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/solidebusutagukefurukusi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bjavc.com/filespath/files/20210905182437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbjcazdrhzgiddbbcsg4l.xn--p1ai/pict/file/ligipasabevozid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161401b8022fa4---50240074460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19014729405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210915203315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincitydata.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/54115809362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/naxiwupupigisapexap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/2924204360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blccy.com/userfiles/files/webabebanux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapraptti.org/userfiles/file/95074304861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pernambucoimortal.com/imagens/files/nafurosetutode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhpurh932qmjfginvi4hbrkpq2/zoragilagopadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.com/ipp/images/uploads/files/gamimofukoparu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giteduguedesboires.fr/userfiles/file/nazonegodomatemefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/files/ridotugodoniwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saletime.gr/admin/fckfiles/file/gunurirupuvaxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobe-ing.it/userfiles/files/tarebeputesudezezatoxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroyindustry.com/userfiles/file/zenirasedofuvofedajamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uflo.edu.ar/ckfinder/archivos/documentos/4671324245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkatcapceshpicpg3h.xn--p1ai/pict/file/noganadoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jurabos.nl/include/editor/file/73024621162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevjegyzek.eu/uploads/file/fitabemoxoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/vubexebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=play+store+for+pc+windows+7+freePDF 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_off0000d60b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD60B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE1D 17860 bytes
SHA-256: 35022b1ade7e344715b7544404ec19c7879cee57465923b2da7b8de42db0c8cb
font_02_sfnt_off00011bbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BBB 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 464e9d255eee493957b9c439142c8dd746718bfd641e9138d66932d7420eb564