Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a00cb37687c6e1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 11:21:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ff2a76ff24bc354d38b85386f2327e1a SHA-1: d0af671e5043f2ba4d1e24f6ae61e6ef3b64aa02 SHA-256: 6a00cb37687c6e1cfee8b995634b575da0428f8c386853d14c1266e5405fefda
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of a link farm, including links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles//file/75234847446.pdf
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/66400084567.pdf
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0313f392f050308d33df653e4c66bd9a/tedubefop.pdf
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c65af80ab9---91933582588.pdf
    • https://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/pilibo.pdf
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qrk8k8ka5velkcgc506b5uktgp/6075749867.pdf
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55abf2e1ebb729247209e8f8f5710531/zaroxebaneto.pdf
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/50930042518.pdf
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/xitiwanazizofa.pdf
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bec99cd994---22029405200.pdf
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fotoguzovo.pdf
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79ce03abcbed97c426ce9f3211b48837/sasapesubudibimijejiziwat.pdf
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8768bd0c8c498b3083780fd3b60382c4/togesuzapijikine.pdf
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21ojd1d1k6usqnbsgupao84ke4/misixa.pdf
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c4b853ab0---56062689548.pdf
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d67881a47---94439232470.pdf
    • https://wittnebel.dk/file/bugezikumajezi.pdf
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s77ol5cl7prjhh9rqd6cn4i19l/84129590285.pdf
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/paguwalasufoz.pdf
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4be449df9fd59d79a52cfa1ea07f2b97/lenumaketepenus.pdf
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f49a8f83cbd57c436d916cc19f41a772/wuxenebomi.pdf
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ec79ab959---gidep.pdf
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/suxegaw.pdf
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/letovafenimugasokifen.pdf
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0193517c6---96587325020.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=250+brl+to+usd
    • 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_off0000d51c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD51C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed2e.bin
8ae5f666410e1f63613e377adad6400ebf69edb0c2f9c1e905fe61e212dc145b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED2E 17028 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000119d3.bin
f2278df05918f52ccc342041a124d658e8252d98a755ea9692d560237a5ffd9e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119D3 10268 bytes