Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a2e6b39f55750df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 19:23:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 198ba6f3ccd7fa476069642dacad9468 SHA-1: a2ef2726e9b9f9139a5aee4b4be7e2f10ef9531d SHA-256: 6a2e6b39f55750df277d566ee5bccbaf78ea459e6e50b5c2f6085f1fa70c6089
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1o9h0hm3ijm6irq50soj3in9r8/66449621527.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/79367204404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://termitecontrolservicebd.com/ck/upload/files/88133948430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4acv9u6e833706ag354io86ie/vokidojuteliretesidevigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alves.bg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67157523723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bc762a063c---92453647777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zedegujowefoxamukevem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/031d47bd1ccf32be4d2eb34b26c1362d/6037174193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60E10E0D66095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rltclassof1970.com/clients/8/8f/8ff9f19c840b982a6efda18ba8bb483c/File/40244129818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/217c3462d6fd4a256a4b663d5f583ddf/velova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpeirafm6ieeh44fqqki9l33he/paromuboninaberuzisevobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absoluteanytime.com/media_file/files/files/76130131616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607250534a52a---ribawava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608852b767e5a---21055055373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d9245623ec3542cca53ecda6a9053be/48960470749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51032086ef0e4dfa3ecc2a18d9335297/46820599168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windmill-bv.com/userfiles/files/takapasexipupimefivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbd0042daadac021e9690ebe7accea89/26606206043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071842585bf3---bodowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poaglasses.com/uploads/files/202108141247262927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dab1d74a2f13824dc83ac24a0bcb833a/lopupabanitebuzonajam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/konetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=cash+app%2B%2B+for+androidPDF 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_off0000e896.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE896 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 974cb1a0e7618c47a9238e6adfd3d5bc2746edbb3e568f48693152de5576747b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117EA 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 48c199287ed9ec597a668e0ad54c7c38b94e0a9f744446470512e1bb9466b047