Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6310063c109b19e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:32:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3acdf1d9ade0647b41a36d34b821138e SHA-1: a3d275776ca4560d3acc8f56507f8e48f605d4a4 SHA-256: 6310063c109b19e31071f09d6448f18c9e6acc047f37bfaf6f77e45aa14fdc66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document, possibly leveraging embedded JavaScript for obfuscation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96d2b4eca6---kajuxogipabowinaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2c2e09725d---xafuwowiketowifiwofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bebf07e39---63782942045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f15a62036---99546033403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/99783208959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877a014ffbf---39455177192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/vasugefariwajesotavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cs514v21pfe9sm85o2btl1jo46/zarigokomezaruwadawafefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161182d140e380---kotibaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congseng.com/uploadfile/files/19949978283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namratalakhotia.com/userfiles/files/8537510098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/51114248389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felicityokolo.com/file/xetegivora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numberonerevolution.it/file/72617533356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/91266610132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb611b5a8bf---11368426257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cb4cc58f6979080f3ba84f01c049b6f/wereruzewopuguni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakadentalcare.com/contents//files/94841215034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bud-drog.pl/userfiles/file/66659882579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d6c8a1e3198bd1667e14839350d0f96/xurixikomojefuzikemur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/49722898305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kb0ilbcnrffkal5j13gtvm4fu4/sufavipuvoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=tin+horn+meaningPDF 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_off0000e0c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C3 18472 bytes
SHA-256: 80066f8d9e926b47d5c0721f3e606197bd8ab0f7bfc27ddf0fd0b457be898b5d
font_01_sfnt_off00010fc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127DA 10208 bytes
SHA-256: cda6f9f6cbefe1450f8c93ba3a778573247ab576b504554d2076897b06db0462