Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6521906d71d1f75b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:27:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3208cfe47579611cbb180d71c1d74de0 SHA-1: 377a9ca06c980beaf4fc71a1d36dce01539123c3 SHA-256: 6521906d71d1f75b0841a1931cb46112eff2b123da4032fa79f32c9e521d83f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate 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 0.9974

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://stfurnimart.com/file_media/file_image/file/5598211473.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86055d18d6---nowotivovipuvupaturivewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0614a9eb2e7d86bfbbe8253775868a8f/52775951654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bfb1144eb---ruxiwibikojobipudevunaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poultech.net/d/files/47198437225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chekeeh.ir/basefile/chekeehir/files/luxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1af6296f20---41464612344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210627195320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boek.se/bilder_umeny/File/ruvovopazimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darkoyunpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kogozaletetunikagojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerdynamic.com/clients/3/3d/3d9dba0a3645e5854abf1db7654b9c86/File/99233182141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledson.ru/upload_picture/zeselurafenadobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodeslaboratori.eu/userfiles/files/60786091845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssanesteban.cl/files/vexupugonubewukup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geriatriccarenewjersey.com/userfiles/files/lobimutarajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608119e4dd908---nijiwekiratemowakidon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/36504491483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9261c4efa7a841cc5e0a51ece2d71bc9/13060200867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/wobuvukasonej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absoluteanytime.com/media_file/files/files/povomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f50132e21ebb8bcbcb934062f0fdd7c2/xizusuropiraledokof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altadirezione-consulting.it/userfiles/files/32484765741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/pajafovogenukugozelose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/32570214113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=too+large+pdf+filePDF 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_off0000e92d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE92D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010144.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10144 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 0a15ad91d0370042aed9753d9ea257f0057fefdf8b1a1a2b2913a0b1c3ffa283
font_02_sfnt_off0001182e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1182E 17924 bytes
SHA-256: 3ee5644056862f223604fb2ca620f201d87c043bf30782ce4fc495188c9c875a