Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6383e613c0bceaeb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:26:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f8d8f1939cab8c938308fa790862ef3b SHA-1: 77fa1e10e4924759da95a1de4ba005a49286d681 SHA-256: 6383e613c0bceaebcf105c72ccead4099bbb7a69222a187e2cae256072cb0ad6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, such as http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ir6g9jds662jmnc2h44buqcpgs/78916896200.pdf, are likely used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a789d4b00---naxawuxos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a47aa17c97---27170043356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607995fd933b4---tasagiboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/319947ee9a951afc23e7a8ecb2de5d51/ridalef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/55880555219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/37238820299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vui22hutmbfhmkrt2sjfvb3p9t/mizurulamalizusizeriwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884b2370812---8246655623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staractivecollection.com/resimler/site/files/62716836614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3c035ce47---dixudujozodorowonut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/4009920385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ir6g9jds662jmnc2h44buqcpgs/78916896200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44490019503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/vudidepefinari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/pipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/lejovanawesikugopip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885f0202dcb---77025376264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phayaotechno.com/UserFiles/File/nodezikaposasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec2b41d05f9c4b9094b6a1f41dd127b3/bogasapuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/22801353572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44baes1tmd4ptsm68uv6pmklj3/34705856648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71bf26647cf5e455589cb58614d45906/6878820672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd36ce51cf---votovewoxavazizelofukixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cgmrd7llffuf4s2vttkuklkc8g/93526490609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+slope+given+2+pointsPDF 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_off0000c9b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1CA 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 1e5603de2b0c44394168f4cf1d167f5da9fc316489d5ffbcb6c4966bd2410fd5
font_02_sfnt_off00010d3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D3A 10572 bytes
SHA-256: d47299ca98f1ef37b5f49ed7d3c0e2194c82dd12ecacafc76a85dace4669ffd0