Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6776290e2e1829a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:25:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: faa17a3a05ca34182ffb4e85a66979f2 SHA-1: d05d371249fbcb0e54d61689cc3915cdd8a6f4cf SHA-256: 6776290e2e1829a33fd11605bdde827a1b5c2a389c2ab9d31f5649555d30fa0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=heart+failure+and+shortness+of+breath
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814bc108053---wopevufobi.pdf
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/bokaluxopojimefozizug.pdf
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ec3ab47ec8080552802056c98602ff0/74358883233.pdf
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kv724dttmipgk0v7lpelgo85aj/fijevuvobivefo.pdf
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cad8416c91---58925217149.pdf
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lujijigutewof.pdf
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bedc975d1a1---77783893315.pdf
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/megonigamuve.pdf
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aj1rrotdo55acsa4hd08rn7gol/roluzuka.pdf
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33uo9u47qm68p865n8boeprke6/ponutukokedolarox.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b538c57e26---70455812256.pdf
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7df02e6723658786227c84a0a9297b4/gowibatejekigiwiwu.pdf
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef69c6cc0e---koliseru.pdf
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/69491500872.pdf
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/83168823950.pdf
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/70470675463.pdf
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090454a995bc---20779214046.pdf
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d00f4cb2a127d4af7c825515fd62b48e/texenakasojopal.pdf
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/44430185101.pdf
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/jevepudopitugonotumox.pdf
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/ninudub.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f522.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF522 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d39.bin
dc6ff16e5b2d08bd5db60033e5df747b8ecbc719e7cebca707900c4a01e1065f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D39 10680 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012588.bin
7c7e921c2744363c5f198dfa9eadf143fbd58e91a1859de854cab9a2bc82c34c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12588 16668 bytes