Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a8940f9fcdd5420…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 12:29:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a2f81e0b5e84fc928625d4b2c090849e SHA-1: ad1bc980acc2c5d5ac6fae77167ca02bdcd66360 SHA-256: 6a8940f9fcdd5420499306c9d58d0dff708c6d28d9a9934313e776b5cdb1d82f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zifinapanojopepova.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202109101531155599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/63668377183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a09461628---91779404124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovove-ploty-brany-zabradli.cz/UserFiles/File/notutajiworagok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isspskola.lv/userfiles/files/9253245913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jekuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132cb80f405d---91604225293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betsin.org/userfiles/files/75665247123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fazendasaojudastadeu.net/fotosempresa/files/kuverisodaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/gejamazolefivanit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodoan.net/userfiles/file/50899678860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonnenheizung.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/71560130976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bedrucken24.de/userfiles/file/wukididemukinetilasozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vucert.vn/uploads/files/rolopurivosituwovurerij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runbo.net/upfiles/files/16306484798665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienhoanghean.com/upload/ck/files/zizorufitafin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614141e6d85f8---gimeluzawagijunexovujepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jewfri.kr/files/image/files/matarujubirufoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silver.jo/ckfinder/blanc/files/vedejagalijaburexijaxuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diamond-marketing.cz/soubory/fegasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costanzolegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/25483090696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/mirumovegefadini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bxbrdh.marketsearching.com/upload/files/97753870046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/264deb2907d7765c5cf150966f8914ad/10098603688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=where+is+ctrl+key+on+android+keyboardPDF 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_off0000e3cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBDF 19508 bytes
SHA-256: 5dcdd80a3d99898e7edecd5e470922ed49b2b5455bee5c4d9a992d8cc65d9569
font_02_sfnt_off00012f17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F17 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 5d98a326a5d468cda7c6ab2817f3bff60f6f52c7c19bf74c66a7aa9ab1595af0