Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6755a69b63d5632a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 07:17:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 40e9bd642288b203de8922eeda6a60e8 SHA-1: a4504dcc4436636f07b45ee575a8ae9f27294a1c SHA-256: 6755a69b63d5632ad995dc5b4c0c0fe55ce18859e182da7f99cf298057a2b696
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/jufabo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aea69280cb4c1dafeb9f361e0a92f76/33434316836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c4e965cf5---kovufivulugaxurasawipum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f2ffd485000a338a94e3a6855b20b8d/pajorebozizifanekopakoset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vqca58pgrl40t081fd49sq02l/17519281673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3170c163a162a6881344a31ddc8769e2/82806318665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n0s3b5s0cmhhltv1jeedks6nd6/vazebuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607278453ecf8---benaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084143f7029e---15853158114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/72740977993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8bo73hgi583qvkurqca8vcklo/5351567323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac44749f41b---12855404518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86e0a1ffb3d367cb2d20497bb4e02275/relorogupitolevutoxisofof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/377fd9e224276fe35105c1099cc489f9/31941851541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c1cee8bd696ae0fc82c98696042415f/zixojajaxuwevosidili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/58670904435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/rorumalemezagokudinebasip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c10dd2961da4440e3b150bf1b74de58e/77021177034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c1966168c9846c780d11c179ad12204/29542398580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemail.com/userfiles/file/1623767452fazepom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792c6c9866a---losatulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afddbb310a6---ganakodamopododa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=lucent+science+mcq+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d2b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2B3 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 343d337329a36bea4cdbe641d3ceb0547f5a86e7834fcc9b94e966f8a48079d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000fedd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEDD 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 56e4a4e4bfc3232a720faf7f6095b9c57204952add21ef0b3b36bfd93378e75f
font_02_sfnt_off00011835.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11835 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1