Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6984adcae3023e40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:01:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9f3f28626830af9f6dc8534083646928 SHA-1: 04c560ba9fb5cafe062150f761359fa9e6569c77 SHA-256: 6984adcae3023e4009c63f1c5db17524c61f1f10811e70802cccd4dacfb7530f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=midnight+sun+full+movie PDF link annotation
    • https://trungtammatnamviet.vn/upload/files/33126604154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kamuxojemonixagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/tixodatemuloxawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promtour-rural.ro/userfiles/file/46254293164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/424facfcdf73895e054f033d0463bedd/54991487320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133e890d49e5---logupadotadifazer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/rowipevujonupom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/vewomogununijusujusapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150002.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210918063042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138f6f649e54---72030215451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istruttorecinofilo.it/userfiles/file/79025406328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstyle.org/content/xuploadimages/file/potebibukexoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uclerbaklava.com/resources/file/pajugokutugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/zefetiziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahubunting1.com/contents/files/81424070810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16800413259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/34503621384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/82370616621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613034f60e624---74041200452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25076565152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietcuongcorp.com/uploads/news/files/wimonodevenazixedamobunam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanantamhcm.com/uploads/files/boxoxudakegifawesibovil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/pulefixuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonellascarpittadesigner.it/userfiles/files/55710423651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138385adfa95---wefinomiritotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cc78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC78 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 008960ebb10d90e44f0f485947e29959b93424ae0841ee8000d8fc4d4c8c7758
font_01_sfnt_off0000e495.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE495 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 386087b6fb399f293011cdf5a00060646d1b80dc5cc0ccbbe758e66656ad387d
font_02_sfnt_off0001123c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1123C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1