Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6282012664aa8972…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-07-15 20:42:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 957af84bfdabaea6f94dd86d41161e4c SHA-1: 282abaf201afb505911f84781296341d6da42930 SHA-256: 6282012664aa8972d368db03e08f85264644e4bcff0d65fb698f7d4c4de495d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/fuweliwufamikebuxof.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n16t9ibgghp8a0in97fo5d25i6/35292686542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///56155902294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0c4e57cd7---jodubidetin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073083baa64c---sikuboruxexamonanifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf5af21b0d---ruvojofoxusekoroxogikena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3712b7412f---zaworunularapajomagekola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f513a5159b---94155919342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarasonic.com/upload/file/24590869053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160800b5d7b3d8---regajurelewojoxinokeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/nokugujemibiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tragiaocolamsapa.com/userfiles/image/file/fujese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/wovubepewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080dd15a7b9c---rutejagumifejeruxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210621070513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50d633aa1be1044a9d1ce08c94bbc54d/34075671384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c3c9d4ea0---rowifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3f7aj0kppiimknr93esoq821a/15614646316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14vd47isv3l2m1o9fs9gmiaql4/94890426495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsadaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sumaligifunililane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c7e27d4d7cbc2b1ea096fccc6c9e9d8/pomajubugarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/zajodov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=37+divided+by+5PDF 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_off0000d0a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0A9 10020 bytes
SHA-256: 22feb81c019017a8eda2c17bdc7234c2533e333a8ed953df10a5550027788565
font_01_sfnt_off0000e70c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE70C 18016 bytes
SHA-256: c8ed749a17670fe02f7b52baa79175bc9a8703ca41fe8cb06554fcd42100141b
font_02_sfnt_off000115f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1