Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ab6982352ef8456…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-31 12:24:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 25b5cbf5ef0cd755d090b34a7394500d SHA-1: 2f7e6fae7cced2de94ced6f5dfea4d05829959dd SHA-256: 6ab6982352ef84561786fa2365e3f7aeeb1bff0813ddf0f3e73e2acce0ba7a9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4dc9db72a---81784081965.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4889ea96053dadd8d274c5c1bcad798/63994908448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a08f0b8a15fa5c967cf6ccfa7f4772e5/zefupedunikoxetinadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c21ct3ih2pmoapmdk3v07vl2gr/49658633620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nluserfiles/file/magewuwazerutezapolajibok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21246233794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaydemtien.com/userfiles/files/10780302394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b039b7e5e5f---menijemamesajuzuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab68ef1a949---xudumor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iehyun.com/editorupload/file/11276285100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/jozow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/70604716916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/gugupanotiwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d441b765e---29446350870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df05669025e---96065111060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camionespanamericana.com/userfiles/file/93031408339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/74911528011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1db47332f---30819647741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/lirataboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/47305229871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/susamunilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cichanski.com/Upload/file/82052132833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointvirgule.ca/upload/editor/file/wivibazifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f391312b7---41899523775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bigabevokijapimitid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=simple+flower+color+pagesPDF 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_off0000f46d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46D 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 548d65e36cb41b66a76ac01c8b7945250278a7974df9a761dc3e539c5afc3321
font_01_sfnt_off00010d49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D49 17116 bytes
SHA-256: 6e7186cc3f6ab11466ee509ca2a8c6b84bad0429381254873d531285ce073d09
font_02_sfnt_off00013a19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1