Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6641b03caf308036…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-07-03 07:29:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 356aa5bca9bcaf3fbbaf284888d45db2 SHA-1: a828f7e31385ca2dc48d2969ebf8059852aa6773 SHA-256: 6641b03caf30803625208b1e6cd8acd5fb7f660bf90fd33269d17c971ed9ac5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to other sites. Several of these URLs point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a malicious intent to distribute further payloads or engage in phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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 http://visit-pune.com/userfiles/file/73085903650.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75e48ec3a01203d12bd90f34b9fc6210/bagumusetixugexamagivewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmsp-me.com/userfiles/files/xopobed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72fbfc67fa2814590f5b3b303e5caee9/82430041270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e2928633cb5cb4e4808a5e6ecfedb34/matik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/bedisarufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljuboori.com/userfiles/files/juzaredife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/13062128918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68f3f0ecd2---87430573275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609facedc014f---xolarosokaturovekupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca60a0f735eab7959852eac6f6a3a64d/berirudivasisaramunimoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad638fdb3a5---tufidizifigulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/418f9b0005490b8ee9fd1b3bec95903c/tilek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.roimages/file/39748834211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091bc872e2fd---nofapeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160ca25a886c1b---738368658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/72944664169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc89a14ed5f1d6bf7b9fdd860cd30eb5/xavobom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b43347a583---93447586159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7dc414bc0---27591206254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e94fa06426---faletoxujagapag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e67fdb074dcf9c503c515d28e7a2292e/24367191951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8521b0249e5af455ae344b32d49f2f45/38248075220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=a+guide+to+radiological+procedures+7th+edition+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA0F 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 6df7b255e32ce9732953e3a8e439bb0e7b9335a996dff4361153dd7564933955
font_01_sfnt_off000113e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BF4 16396 bytes
SHA-256: 0d5ffd35431de3a46edebb3e7d04db42186100d4a60b404ad8ca180934dad6cb
font_03_sfnt_off0001420f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1420F 17604 bytes
SHA-256: 24985e08863aaca06c1a3ef1d186d24dabc5202d3f0badff6084631bfac980b0