Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6955e44b26909b7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:52:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7f76a50d491ae955f558afe95b50517f SHA-1: 86164de9114c22ea66d8c3e82de8d8e23f04fe95 SHA-256: 6955e44b26909b7f97be80fb15484bb6d348d72f4665cdb43247768e7a26b271
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is designed to lure users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/21568136873.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yjsyrj.com/userfiles/file/zifibozimunenazub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/438c66d464ec62be024bca73b34d37f6/wunorotodixikorus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b14d2156cd---javidibatifotadakoxeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/pupumumav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe3a3e53ef---lawowazirina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/zijisasal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dpl19j3pv2tfuqlq32ri5pdl65/migafuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7841a54d8d---dojonapokiloganasesito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/matazaxuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60e407015def93f95737a65f3724b190/86023324489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e07a13473---9661434605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/2722609173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/089a0f18c3401b1cbd649a2aa8d87a39/68094073418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9t2vdkdikq08prljkhrcblh13r/78683213832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c42fbe29150f2cdf1919424bda690789/rebafofefazifunebirotinaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c591a5fbe---malamokakapeketejorun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/sudovetojon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfb518d587---59781460046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7rm823ugcofqsvu0152kks7uv2/mororikipid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872015d5028---manuzonemapixeduze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///81923520452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=myers+briggs+the+commanderPDF 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_off0000f1cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1CC 17448 bytes
SHA-256: bd32e122e33c2a9b736ada323bac14a2cfbc35de8b0e1031e2c399549e2b62b8
font_01_sfnt_off00011fb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB6 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 43d33209f06dd80a0277026db55648cdd59e028da80907142acf3cdfd475a94d
font_02_sfnt_off00013909.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13909 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1