Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6663b408e028fb9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:00:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d1799eb3ff672d8903674af6c28d7735 SHA-1: 861bd44d710cc1665a03d9da867be313f5080d23 SHA-256: 6663b408e028fb9bd152ee55cfc263555d1796109b182ad506ebdec4e04d6108
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03ecdf2d31---74140727014.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1es9fp7cmm4guve49hkc5odeej/52959494075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jamudenusaguxuwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c07bcd0d34f---wajanumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakkue.com/contents/files/31012026933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/45111443545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ienb00fa57348rc5avi3kuvj9/61021023276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160aea8b1576fd---48076879807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5io5psnlt2pon89or3mbd0sg7/10744352248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/file/pamufopasesufem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9vgt8dvmgbnua0bql9nt9u246u/96381889064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/clr2ggul2chu8svs824lafup53/foxojezikuwutonida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/wopanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab85e515ce9---41783700923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/lobinoxofiwiremujizarikit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webs123.com/userfiles/file/razedofalafudexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-grad.ru/fck_editor_files/files/zififuwipaxinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1b122e7268---43903522367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/43091652150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kesut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmen-bekleidung.at/userfiles/file/40566232049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607041f468368---kebutilonigomodona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=improper+fractions+worksheets+grade+4+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_off0000ce6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE6A 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 5a1ffe9ae50c73d96607c6110633828fc82bfe188662f5d27c656c82f47011ca
font_01_sfnt_off0000e867.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE867 18048 bytes
SHA-256: 12708ecbd835c3820558f68712bc4fc0265c631a8045fd7a9e7bb43405fbb030
font_02_sfnt_off0001171d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1171D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1