Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6680cd94ac87d450…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:00:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 593ec064c4ef0ff06c1198abc57237fa SHA-1: 6a7ae4b96b59cc49f23d2db06080b12adfb5d61f SHA-256: 6680cd94ac87d450ea2a5c8415c3c9433be2be1116f7c3e3e9cea2331bb1bd7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://bioterapiazabiegi.pl/obrazy/file/lisev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jeanthompson.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xizemaxulaxekanon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/90976636176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldprint.su/userfiles/file/fobifanagogibasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afc29877b90e06af99cf250558b4fbd1/vuvuwufowepexinalefariv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ausafe.net/images/art/files/49437409852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhome-listings.com/userfiles/files/12552790700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k0a4aqrim3endiqm5dkttn707l/disamukemusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f99590fd5---74547264324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanlinh.vn/upload/files/49402075511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b338eeed295---25920200077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opuntia.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/911da5fe0f88accae4e9325fb59ec735/23880577390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1tlceo6l5nq1o33jupff022n1p/56536526906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/46524908102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksdc.in/userfiles/file/beworefagudonivoribugurif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2cb782b579---69147902662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210620022758955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/tenufagitiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93ccd726c2d1ed51d718cd21d7ec571f/tijezunewomomeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalnetworks.de/www.galabau-poscher.de/main/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21149927112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d84f83mttjhlkcq35crgq0h512/zajiwogikebanup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/wudegol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/50569271485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/kebetobodiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=horowitz+ethnic+groups+in+conflict+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_off0000d0b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B5 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 8f5faee683e1d61ec222f10ca77ec020e4cb94cf517f4cea546564619e5eaaba
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F2 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 70d6241df1e134e382d16d40955d46afd9111b6c33af69c793a1b9a55ff9b67e
font_02_sfnt_off00011644.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11644 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1