Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a636d719f0b6ff4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 23:15:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 137b40a2f7a96237fd9e91154d7af785 SHA-1: d72f7688c4a7ce14d1ca94738ae9f91bf28e0bac SHA-256: 6a636d719f0b6ff4942d8c0acc8f30822cf49289510c71b55a9f24801cc97f59
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of these links strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=parable+of+the+yeast+story PDF link annotation
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0ad2326d8---88024773182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8a30683df---matomip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce2172f05fb---19363194527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27926337799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinnaduraflex.com/uploads/files/33553034627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3695c07fc---92559114698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rbliaus83etu7j2p99c041i9j/puloban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coreaad.com/DreamDataUpload/file/wazivezedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608528af372be---92961465975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-district.org/userfiles/file/6569232813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44383b8c71a3303018710ca46dd52ce4/63078586939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8dc1c82b4---vixobasovalex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f782377e7---59709902857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f6bddf4a5---kajovimafebaboxufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d969qr8u84a0iuj8hv432ef2d/remisoviwapiros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1fe278bec---21385619878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointvirgule.ca/upload/editor/file/28563631499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7053f3dee1---pulovizejidik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgapopovaphoto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2760295a26ab34435f40b00e0040f26a/felugirovapava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2570b3695e---36767860359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busanpc1.com/upload/fckeditor/file/fugekiwimivikoxibabetije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/sodugojezelex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intestinalfortitude.org/clients/0/0c/0cf504f131cb0201443a7bd449519f4a/File/sojokerugabexiwega.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_off0000f012.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF012 17024 bytes
SHA-256: ce71a572dd89ae5e78a1109c885621b6dce969754e36aee892f55dd69754285f
font_01_sfnt_off00011b86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001339d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1339D 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 6fb2f9b18f728ffc8c19bc07c02dbe05275c0a2209803d43883211cb87024d25