Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6891f363e60e8a28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-20 13:00:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 39a5f1103cc10e6419ce256403c63782 SHA-1: 3147d8bf668f8ce0b1adc4a8ea58d3e381cc2725 SHA-256: 6891f363e60e8a283cb2eb46d94510c2a096f4a288e80fd1dbea78a747466457
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan-like behavior. It functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains, likely to distribute further malicious content or phish for information. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/gawupazuvosoburisolikof.pdf
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8b6a463aeb88a0f8f79dbab93b9148f/xepoxixetodeleni.pdf
    • https://fertilizergranulatorprice.com/d/files/nuvijunofukijujekubuxad.pdf
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/73537053360.pdf
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca22bc7276dd5583afe666f1b91e1fc3/31400936441.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c469596eeaa---26212985613.pdf
    • http://jtylek.pl/Upload/file/84861125021.pdf
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607addc4893c9---53149460699.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-8/20210608115603965486.pdf
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b09994231d---zemora.pdf
    • http://stjconsulting.it/userfiles/files/zurapagarigo.pdf
    • http://sibleyestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/57224779673.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e937eac405105ccd8e2069959ffc15ad/kabuditesok.pdf
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3460565424---baxavukawepevufegexobiru.pdf
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd1ae2b6136---56588995055.pdf
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/bugakuxaf.pdf
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad93e80893e---tizibatupomutiwuwalawej.pdf
    • http://anquocrealty.com/uploads/image/files/zuwazepifoxurikenepu.pdf
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/74924311125.pdf
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/63665369546.pdf
    • http://studiobaldizzone.com/userfiles/files/sanabutujiduriw.pdf
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/38868866471.pdf
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ec7690201---fozumabisizifelugol.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=ie+8+free+download
    • 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_off0000eb52.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB52 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010369.bin
5ef076357768e794db07d46786a9614efdb8851107a63e242af673cd6e5d2fea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10369 10232 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a8d.bin
87191419a693ebfcfa4936bbbd8aa685b44a321c604f4ee96cc444e9c2ac03e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A8D 17184 bytes