Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6560afd98087c5b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:27:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0e546761eb21d9fbee66e50c379c2990 SHA-1: 360c9ed243a188ef35a532eb217dfb1b045bf957 SHA-256: 6560afd98087c5b44df08c31ac2e81f5bc65d11cbee36542b791f335ee7d80c5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous links to external PDFs hosted on various domains, some of which are identified as compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. This suggests the PDF is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://dtpokebar.com/uploads/files/65924564878.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://granitemountainranch.net/userimages/refeket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93b7a149cd---sawifebemezazuzani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e9390ae33c8c7b9e0ab85839b849939/58652242925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608751e07b579---11299420172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosvanbeek.nl/mindcms/js/ckf/userfiles/files/fodisezekadogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/bejemijixotonodago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/50746807510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhao-tech.com/userfiles/file/76449553828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karlschool.org/uploads/files/202108182011563034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7abb47231---95440678133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/5765757673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094538fe10b0---vowuraganinixadizolefami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/81134140348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/169a0a3f554a2f9cf1b9d9043588b7b6/67202795375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9oo14dshe5j617pshphrog1dn/mezela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/33941347528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images//fck/file/wufaneduraweliwade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newshieldinsurance.com/demo/gsa/final/images/file/kojutukerarofilajogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/xasesuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs1980alumni.com/clients/878257/File/xutupulipavoniwevifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/metotad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f72278a51d7---13886465947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+cancer+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_off0000b805.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB805 16364 bytes
SHA-256: 0a912ce4dde2e21bb2f933257074101038b271fade6cb8b0753666a67750bd27
font_01_sfnt_off0000e29c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE29C 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 49e690c190251e1ba9d721945e367b8a423e99d3ab2ffe9f2df14a12b49f0f1d
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1