Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a384f01785eb4c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 00:52:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d4a707d12672e078158456ab5abe1257 SHA-1: 488cc58d645da7f4e0dad4fdab5276e30100bb6b SHA-256: 6a384f01785eb4c2f62db074e6ac71d9ef8ec611faeba913c67d1c3951fe2a7a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identify it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure itself does not contain readable content, but the embedded links are the primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/89382558803.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ahnil.com/userData/board/file/sisilatepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peltonfell.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23781193136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tndgdemo2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/metakawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137603743beb---guzivolezeduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rvhifi.cz/files/file/70667790129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermatologie-chamonix.com/userfiles/file/83354408883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d86e4e085---65261149467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeeing.com/userfiles/files/46391195841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fb8370303779153ee9d4467bc149742/bofusaluwipijusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8c60acd2418d759bcb84eff7fd75a91/tarebilunupogedunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c845e8997f---mokuzunuzobob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herium.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_7581EE3C329638F7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caytrong.vn/Images_upload/files/68203825069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckattorneys.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/winilalarofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adoz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97958617267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademibt.com/resimler/files/99126198319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delta-serwis.pl/pliki/fomolofuzawagidusuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/xuduzagepibukewapurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/pagelodufalisibuxesosuraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.smartplus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25686012303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=cheat+ml+1+hit+kill+apkPDF 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_off0000ccc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCC4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D6 17788 bytes
SHA-256: cb17e7fc5a3228a24e54669115fdb8d6198a0375bd9a00e4517edc9ba11e52a7
font_02_sfnt_off0001137c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1137C 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 44e3758824e54b30906e626d5c9aad8eda50ba74aa124ba6fd50e450d97c10ae