Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6582e76252065481…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 13:02:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0972583bdf4238abb2bd4d4295f0c886 SHA-1: 7793aaad89e7bec847d0a73081e4a432f09ffe4e SHA-256: 6582e76252065481602190a060d8ba2a27c933f7fc8499fc4b475e5fd8069212
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 upload storage 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 URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents that may leverage embedded JavaScript for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=1+quarter+dollar+in+rupees+today PDF link annotation
    • http://boxethai38.com/upload/file/jubudaxinagaduxuvam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27188c584abcc1699fa3150407db2023/tisojopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/79049902476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/mulug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-6/file/fuxarojota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c02obl13s931bu5o8irb1d5es8/64189272824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/40344417172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/46152177910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210620030102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e693360dc7797d20e41c2e4e60803c7/tudalebaxidadipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada25f82cc3---zezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c202a95b6---86603111733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd008bdbcf---mupebulolet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c949ec21f---gemubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797c2ac1874---sixibarixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/38324749063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cunningham-reunion.com/clients/7/73/7399477c88ef979e1ad3ac38e42cffcc/File/71496851382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8e095fc6a---57576122314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/zelix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0vote.com/ckfinder/files/81663596064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51d10d3e03a893f6355a7a0c168ca0a1/tigulebedoxofag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/20885494997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6293b7edc---8976740724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiuxingchaoshi.com/uploads/file/27225301568.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_off0000fca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA1 18392 bytes
SHA-256: f965f1bdf1aa8abdab7d70b0e983990bdc930e5b556d7d586433d880e652f601
font_01_sfnt_off00012c9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000144b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144B2 10700 bytes
SHA-256: dbc4b2f98cbbf9612c462b55d0232b93e3450e661196b5dcbd85c668627f6850