Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a64d2bb937a4e87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-08-01 08:03:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d5b5f5c262ad6b58b32916390c7524bc SHA-1: 43b1c18c9ee98a46e4e37ce01d4d88e3fd1ad5a2 SHA-256: 6a64d2bb937a4e8774f21ad805b114839c4b079c993773f34a4cb4b31fcde7b2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or lead to phishing pages. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=arabic+calligraphy+fonts+free+download+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f940ce078---58402560042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3b1d693683---37096117067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcucaytrong.com/images/files/titeluxojulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogoducthien.com/uploads/files/gojebiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu//data/editorfile/29010191307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e61c1e027---dixegosezex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ce423183588e9f167fe87f0a70f15b3/75929821498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monktonlionsclubkidscamp.com/clients/9/99/99b8b5517e5fb663501b7ee5137ebf55/File/73742833612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stegopackaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fjf2dbnjtkssva6of4unkqkrr/nivolojolenik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f785fecb524---makese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/53480849677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empresa-venta.hr/files/kesorugoweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862a8f3fa27---sigewisaganev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd59a3d273fa213645c13469d9009922/totopudakosawegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3f4d57acf---kuzemejugidofab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a5340e9e6ce8e3d0068d70eef5a6273/rafisapepiniteru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happypalettebnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/radevavoxafalegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fereshtegan.net/basefile/fereshtegannet/files/resusinifuwajixujuzowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibanghanoi.com/uploads/files/lonejamaladozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/nomizanen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ndc9db85aet90ugunem53u4719/delitutesutunudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/57895201569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logansport1971.com/clients/4/42/424235dfd0fdcd2d3cc2afd1e16bb83e/File/wilexajezek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5759aba0b6---91366194829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6b0629a481e525cbb02f18162280741/zudidopofasupanu.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_off0000fcab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000114c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C2 11460 bytes
SHA-256: eb09a3cb23f8602002622a6a7df7586c6ba8be6117748663a5e71f9fb8e95fe5
font_02_sfnt_off00012f8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F8A 17068 bytes
SHA-256: d6992eb3602a0155243717159ed371eec6d707bed5590535e3918ac7800247df