Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ac4d25ee9a68c86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

220.0 KB Created: 2021-09-23 14:27:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1f88a423cd2137a5a633472cafaa694c SHA-1: cfdd1cac97f365fb3f4604b0032907803941cd3c SHA-256: 6ac4d25ee9a68c8666cd1638112954f0b2e7d7c6640e2a1b16e12a7a161b2133
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, several of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of embedded URLs and the overall detection profile strongly suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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=a+slip+down+memory+lane+kickin+it PDF link annotation
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/tigukajuridawuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a10f190279---42996989156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e7120358d---20758823263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalholidayproperty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29360789332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradzo-ep.com/uploads/files/63848248526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161389dce99669---81087615208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packagingandfoodmachinary.com/userfiles/file/tononevogitunutugeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/vedugenuwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://systempro.kr/userData/board/file/35703255312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngoinvest.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/seforiserebegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96995449953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromaonly1.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/22217150500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanphongphampmc.com/upload/files/sowoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidropro.hu/upload/pozurevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sterlingsez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ganufabimitesubidiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclubcom.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/nelatuperikijunuvugimez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ternovykh.ru/content/file/zoviwusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.com/contents/files/dovagifurufotiwafamilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rt0hrltn3stmfh2q5ms28ktli7/61657249217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordineveterinarivenezia.eu/userfiles/files/susamoxedapowadavepadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138f840663dc---lufopasadedusaduwejim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.meditech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57646252822.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_off0002fe49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2FE49 19236 bytes
SHA-256: dbf376882a2e0bbe47723756978af37faa881d4d1bc5837750f57f54f2774493
font_01_sfnt_off0003300c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3300C 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 19f91401b2f77e11c0a7b1c895cb004e885a0a38987c2b294228000af0874dd6
font_02_sfnt_off0003497f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3497F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1