Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6728fb674c575e77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-08-10 15:04:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6c0895fd23f9371f6b3122d265199ce7 SHA-1: 3bba3dbdc4914db06371f3dbe12b10f4b0fb4be0 SHA-256: 6728fb674c575e772601748247ef0ba8de3505f92705508cdae312cc0ba59025
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites, likely for malware distribution or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ece1970e24---78587277534.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://giltmorestukko.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27174717492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeminyerkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/65324247945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitsubishilongbien.vn/images/ckeditor/files/pojoxetiketigibawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c04c804abf5b9fbd3cfbcd70d568e7b3/jefudesosironaxaridexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcf695710f7c360b3ce3ced421d177ca/62850457960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801bbf45fe7---jikarawinagazurot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2j2mvuat78jpsaoqa69goaq7t/biripofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dzerzhinskij.ru/upload_picture/file/lezatawiditoret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecoferfamily.com/clients/7/78/7892d776c92a08c80f86ebc6236678d2/File/butamipodigagegivevofovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/xamoliwunasojorumetugot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0db47e7f4---gidukufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/66394382297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa371da6bfb---2599544127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usefchina.com/uploadfile/file///2021080601462497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61f59f4e7d3b825402c9ba0f63328151/dadovezuzopimosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9df517e9340c8512d1255532c2adcce3/nosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaexploring.it/userfiles/files/4995473744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbondcorten.com/attachment/file/ad02031611a6efbb74cc432ad23f5f19.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/40450141131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://picinterior.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41176469583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=infectious+disease+books+free+download+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_off0000d951.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD951 16564 bytes
SHA-256: 7897de2b580b17fa49f574dfa863dc4ef09fb92a46d5b0217e283a87f2c13d00
font_01_sfnt_off000103ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103ED 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 5001a733676391d79eae56c3b9153d97cd78be8d5b68f7e26136fa548e0d58f3
font_02_sfnt_off00011d6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1