Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6592f841361bd278…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 16:56:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a49e2bf9a6eff87a44eb38678b1c77b0 SHA-1: 65090c41d797fe1e9c477c6e8d01b386760c9d65 SHA-256: 6592f841361bd278c92d5cf35b0e585d42319980474470105eac2f7c12a1fdb7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or to download further malware. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13146799587.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91da8f7263e72acd62ce6590ce5db817/lewemugububuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/manunevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/163d8a56b594897cc4933aa85eca15c2/90499204485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f2809a0f1693f87804a25e9c9455caf/togekir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/89517294469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d30f8ab94c---boxunos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/92016483487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/rowutab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608561d3743e8---wafenaluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ogojkh6pljpa5taf9f8s09vu3i/taxanukavigipikiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1mhhma8bcmm20fabo5849p5mtg/nukakikabawofot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/570a0f4031c8cd8c8f1a95f9f1dc0dac/didikumamuzavuxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a195d32382---duwuporenetidalim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/18530891888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/mipimuxudebejojiwonuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/zemizenekirowemesibokav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af8419e0fd---roguzoruniba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gonguyenkhoi.vn/upload/files/1329042196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51875caf43a31ffd47da7012c6bf0402/47155299650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907ff1e8152---81876473950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b1ce12e4e---pikitosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawtutors.co.uk/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52419278907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dc9918e20cd06abe422ac9f02a7f4f0/kesusanibujorifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=things+to+do+in+the+nether+updatePDF 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_off0000fcef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCEF 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 3dc9d14328bacf5ea872e5c60f88875b28e248d5887d0be71821e8816834a6c0
font_01_sfnt_off000128f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128F2 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 185c1199dd6a5661f2218c0ead6910aeee54e8ac1638d2b1450d68e8cb751c5a
font_02_sfnt_off00014130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14130 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1