Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6395102a78e3b1e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:13:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4796071bf054aba365b77c33e50000d5 SHA-1: a7d184f97890a9b1682ea33c2b9c8a810d23af57 SHA-256: 6395102a78e3b1e91b00933528eda90acbe8084133f5e8c2e31b6a4dbe589365
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of an attempt to lure users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=auto+consignment+agreement+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://hadt.vn/upload/files/sikikomipawufuxixapigopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ae5e8ff52---67248328722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhlongan.com/upload/files/lemijikovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b749fde122f---77437263627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seosanhrd.com/userfiles/file/sumorowuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608336884ee17---vamejetupivarosadukudimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariomauracotti.it/userfiles/files/bapijudokulomepeliruxifop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad700d996e---5174045143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2u1lb54j1bfm58vil748sj7he/56308984971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed63620a1e8159a917d466e6deb285c3/dalelivojeniratiwofus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/289f7359f39e6fe471e39143c69c2a4a/3041982800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gnic50s2d7m3tgvbfoubtn5af5/68356288015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4dde8ca888---38557200784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7c083111b---magafalererazikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://food-cloud.com/home/food-cloud/www/site//site/data/files/74642581766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41139217b91e77123c22812ced55f090/12002056686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/36411514249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/99167580317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f65340f0a---fowajunemawebapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t70um3ggtneqoui15qpfpnsclt/31238183502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pritchardreunion.com/clients/81409/File/sibani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8c3adba544d2f5e9591dfda4dc4abdf/74087384796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/rotuzekegesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/97708187829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608047f5a510b---75845711574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f64ac779b17---vomasasabired.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dae8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAE8 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 1c0ee7d6e614afc3edb9200c006983ff3071456a515014639a703d6c45b2e97d
font_01_sfnt_off0001072e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1072E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F45 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 8c86a125db323c086368ce38579c8841149ca34231aa1d7d613ecf7bc5f5aed9