Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6551120087fe8af2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5ff592c7655ff546b1cd55744ae6ab66 SHA-1: 450b7aaf0c2ecef5f2374d3aea7e6a81fa1b14a9 SHA-256: 6551120087fe8af2b11652d3bbc814eb121199cdd19f890303607dfeee8bbf85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other suspicious domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://gamjagolla.com/uploads/files/wizipolulowaja.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://summit-christian-academy.com/scauserfiles/files/22406497101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/92733439480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607626fa55d24---28913970324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janandpoos.com/clients/872640/File/10361777729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refpecsbelvaros.hu/kepek/files/60354304632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourtruck.be/upload/ckeditor/file/jokixunewevijupegilek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24652326cf3974f2f0ca879078ae04c0/64188459707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/zorilevikedewivijisusojop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/sizebagefobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique-u.biz/images/uploads/file/65536505744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fowutipefelujivabeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/supeponolisasepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d26050cad6a---61058833674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyeetomsfishing.com/userfiles/file/jesaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzweiss.at/71808492061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2e219bf10---37219523858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82a1019aa51000a40436b7099bb77328/vedibikopukezufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptindia.com/newsimages/file///20434507380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/87820993218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/72601725970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///puzizaletezuranerus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4445d68f68---61039200791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f37da3f5b7c7e8bcac945b96e11290a4/liwuvigajizowekofepafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianspringhomes.net/userfiles/files/95077203166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=business+culture+definition+pdfPDF 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_off00013deb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000155fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155FD 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 207f0356da3cecc7b401e065c36d604e16af55ddbebbc0e7a9f791003d5a0a21
font_02_sfnt_off00018455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18455 10604 bytes
SHA-256: c8e3c1479373252318cac20cc9b0ae68832e6bebedb768691872874331d161a0