Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a55373c0eedfd30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-08-23 23:54:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b84f98f24ea4cd88841dae653f2aa08f SHA-1: 6e1f308cf20c739d2b41fe58301bc6df5fee9817 SHA-256: 6a55373c0eedfd300c104220f31c8bb19893bec5f35204a6b7bc1223d24bf1d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these external links indicates an attempt to lure users to external resources, likely for credential harvesting or malware download.

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mobile+business+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://xosobacninh.vn/webroot/img/files/mameradumunepije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/mizidetafaloxaribupenat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3ms4bv5eq85s68f1urid3m7f6/17326066591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4dda8709b---39862800829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210630133652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoldlepes.hu/userfiles/file/sinesubuvekikalomisojad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5k3cfr761i2ap9mh1cvbgjg02/21494691599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/22422860420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izeninfo.net/admin/upload/files/64449753177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1ea511d7a4---wetujonad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bafee763241---dasefosegobata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8fc0otsimghuke7upbirvsq3a/34690441876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/37219087228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uppercanadatwocylinderclub.com/clients/877835/File/24665875840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce15a3990d---19951793569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94de6235e7---luzuletakuligu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pescepiana.eu/userfiles/files/podizotevinol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--22cjbbm2eyae3ehabdb4kqdtae3dxnnc1fhf.com/user_img/files/rolexezudot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3b928590fcf3fdcd08f04780e1661fd/64373537378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoledesgourmets.com/userfiles/file/gibepupavakokilufudegama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17bf6f13d3---biribazirifikusivoxodef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/37015081683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f62735666f03f2a323c6f67d919bbfb/32015778767.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_off0000e3e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3E3 10364 bytes
SHA-256: ac19a04433ecbd3780bf3bee93db85934e33552b258cd328bc5997dff071a559
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB1E 17296 bytes
SHA-256: a327acdf61ae1e198e280f33a5b12cd9af5976f434c4059cec8ff1a8851d0713
font_02_sfnt_off0001288d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1288D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1