Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6797a4c0002618fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 23:26:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 20fd3cf5cc7c04da1abcf36f456cc038 SHA-1: 46dc6df3f41689670684d43e0077a6c81dc6ade9 SHA-256: 6797a4c0002618faa79802a500675c26ec8327ed8458d4d6527fa4b8fd003e54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple URLs point to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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 http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16213154161720336499.pdf
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960f44630c1---nolimatumudiperibopanigow.pdf
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/934a11df9815984390d0e9084b2b2ba6/89286929190.pdf
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886c0265bec---62735895071.pdf
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070eba43bc72---44341150339.pdf
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9b0388028---55960408421.pdf
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/94511217126.pdf
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f6bf59437---67224081027.pdf
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb51fbaaa71---zefonegofozogakatu.pdf
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9445be82c8ea38ca1e3b7399f5e6e6af/34016717884.pdf
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/8784007897.pdf
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fb9fcb10c6662e3205cc910c12dfa87/61361349070.pdf
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982af529ecc---47852352370.pdf
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b64bcf01f5be25d2647a6b9777e565df/8285651992.pdf
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/77064427286.pdf
    • https://bnovum.hu/downloads/43752140545.pdf
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/40795647510.pdf
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/magaxemimamux.pdf
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e8e0f0f9646405994a5fcc2338928e0/jimile.pdf
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1aec41800fd4f0e49e6d47d853cc79b/12847598592.pdf
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/91941417998.pdf
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/89789496172.pdf
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607155fe8fe8d---4451945929.pdf
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45a038dfeee3e80bf67258cfa9a2b58b/38030557665.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=anoboy+fairy+tail
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa00.bin
16b1f5abfa9456f27cbd23bd069be9a124c385a569e299c3a509ca978103baa8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA00 18396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001279e.bin
884a0b8e6ea1e8e8880a662b4222ada8a84dd152e44b86641ee75731f7b3825c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1279E 10140 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013e6d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E6D 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001567e.bin
0d5ffd35431de3a46edebb3e7d04db42186100d4a60b404ad8ca180934dad6cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1567E 16396 bytes