Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6699e4cbad503f20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 23:26:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 60d7b369c3fe32e762a16304119b04b0 SHA-1: e04b1d9834fd50738c8b5fa8c3b93b5f0e2fb4be SHA-256: 6699e4cbad503f20d04de0a530d04615ef247eb55de982ce5470d63f0e828268
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' confirms the nature of the document as a link farm on potentially disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spring+boot+clear+cache PDF link annotation
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e14f394c66---fegotitenumazupiwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/049229d46b08883e4a5e3fedf66c79e7/pinufomadavuxodon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/509b5518a1f39871fd6eaa78be5ef018/25789430890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/54523683613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/8059292526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce74d3e9d88---senenodivaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cce36e93da---walinen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7c016ffe2---rovoral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dereformasenalicante.com/archivos/files/zujitagotisixoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa957d0d863---lebezug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fd4d018db---62286983658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/18549655022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ad4935036---dujiwanarepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083272ee0ce3---5404438280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8f9d371645---51629688985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c6ef24433---zilakarabutojajuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/zelolomegevadadufoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/zusemosuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6a45acc747---raxoselawogawubufasedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d31ed3071c---vufulezugowoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b121811bc1---xamijolepov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2d8702b53---difixosidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/94055116885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010bf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001240b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1240B 17756 bytes
SHA-256: a1d87cd250430f05cdce331d807b1fdb482b2c97a60c9d7b87e4f9d990d3bfb8
font_02_sfnt_off000152f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152F0 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 5a38ef9b70f5511f20110b4b8ac16a63edce72f9252960e5572856bf0f423745