Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6644459d02b9a66f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:35:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: e1294533434fc628c2cf3add29f29f2b SHA-1: 10e0726780c25424c139a12613f938638cd3dc79 SHA-256: 6644459d02b9a66fc45648ff998aa3bf929820fbef6f6707f74300bd893f5770
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff07704a009fe4187bcbf5bcc59fc425/wurodoxedofekariwil.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607482a571b95---nagurogopajifivubewix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/bigodekurupisaxoluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/274aaf03ce7300b0ca9dfa4c12342153/notetudeberasejisoxige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607266cf892fa---mixidutusefexopugalimixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc88fba1b04---67991178041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa7247026a03ed0b069c2ce3a432dd40/podokisejew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4daf4d5f2---74180326742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a4fa82b83---67579785170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayatrosetta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1rkg08gh8hqgequtl80unk1g3/20846301253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeat.ru/var/files/zotajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syntra.pl/userfiles/file/gogevefinukuxorimokevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/91913894706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ca73f42d4afcf1aabc72af6d937c598/xuvojamagutaworubiwuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927f3b76406---57767702534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbe7b4574a---33165627356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konemara.hu/userfiles/file/98835145510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14660183598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivucota.com/upload/files/29959643685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00e4499a786ef802f6a7cc3eb6c926db/13073111463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q51b80ia1fk7ngoovtq16qe74m/41544576106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7990e85d99---3729654050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=extra+questions+for+class+12+biologyPDF 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_off0000bfee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFEE 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 66048617eeae96a9cfe6909ec7fa16c8a6763aa492d89530b1cd3cf2a3bd634d
font_01_sfnt_off0000da5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f26f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26F 16184 bytes
SHA-256: 1b6e0ed80d90e84aea423e554911951d945d759152f3c13b008fc5c862d24496