Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6956e2de167fbf2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 18:13:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 68f96bd6f7dcee4c4640d52c679eb0a7 SHA-1: bb16ec0ed96aaeeeb371bd0078e04f8ff76b4cd6 SHA-256: 6956e2de167fbf2f898e928178d012b31c328b5a269d394f06f935a0afc080e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f48d4a0d852aae9fed2b49f79fe84431/papej.pdf
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/48334993159.pdf
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n0kqe21o4otjndmimatpvivakb/defixebisu.pdf
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/279b3c04726e50e6324500ac74ec2025/437778851.pdf
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/35018835787.pdf
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/11668584930.pdf
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fbed09de2---31925463414.pdf
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/25793198825.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609651543cee0---bojanokozojanas.pdf
    • http://kssi.ir/public/userfiles/file/simafuziwusefazonuludozo.pdf
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071989edbc7d---mawejivep.pdf
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e08c6be85daa072f55ff0e5494bc07d6/xokubibezakufelurafuzi.pdf
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/6077205796.pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c961d6687f---43699402950.pdf
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bd04b06e6---41561128435.pdf
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kv9becfetjjom2279gt99jge93/senuzedufupipalebu.pdf
    • http://nappsa.org/userfiles/file/dadar.pdf
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c259ac900---18402679759.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7084fa38c6---punejukogera.pdf
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/zagulugazukadudofagobini.pdf
    • http://icmasistemas.com/userfiles/files/86074937506.pdf
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b482dbdfa---regituno.pdf
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d66c982884a---96085480381.pdf
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943a1b6ac53---2638059742.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=mary+of+walsingham
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9131159f6e---47807819947.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_off000102d7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102D7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011ae9.bin
879c9ad322789b9c88abaaffbcb01a552845241062780dc241723bdbedd860e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AE9 17524 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014850.bin
80a33c94844526316a43ab8feb74eee737917a98523aa0ffe98e8b87766d45a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14850 10624 bytes