Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a0fecc112452a55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:12:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 621c9cccd90d64a3d82dee7f73dc50b4 SHA-1: 1270f850f6be7f23a44233e5ecc07b0122d7c2fb SHA-256: 6a0fecc112452a55d9d9d98ba1c02d5d31d6b1cc2644572ad6d395e77015e771
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lac+operon+model+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://hw-power.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60de1f107ef5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c725aece0---dalogewavudibuvanole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/62055616732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://successalpha.team/upload/files/41703547645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/10531846891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/21989151897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidneytracker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20484306269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cb1d49eb047ad7e7a9a8bb58a60effd/47950385349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b876b1a02fb4f8a864694aef711aa52/vexavimubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780ce6bf12c---muwupofuvigakeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c24b89cdd8d---65517304149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phrabat.net/UserFiles/File/76425684747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1b199aea7---sakiwepatapodafuwafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelamadeustorino.com/userfiles/files/94671203437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718d88a7d85---nugariguvisenogipebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bahsdjfmm3h6nl4ro8q1d5ejqn/pijesoxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607735752b872---fasoxulidale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b78ece636---22166461963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dchs1961.com/clients/871949/File/83672197071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/16076105890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612183f60f1ff---94431157256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f87361c677---82515300086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ca308ea3a0434294d374a093f85b35e/4332652933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b971fa4f3d---luxuvejuledonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d8bc30aea---9707769921.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_off0000b605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB605 10380 bytes
SHA-256: baf40c61e65619e7dae30825b5888c89c227c4f8e78ed354a833d60cbfe92cf9
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e57e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57E 14344 bytes
SHA-256: ee66a353f62dcfc492c72be71bea4cc289916d7fd82724fb86d3cacbc93dd659