Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b04aadf446f78b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 07:17:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2a458e39fc6efdc0fce639bb15f9335e SHA-1: dcd7981b518edf6b88e5daded36a4c1fd75e0c42 SHA-256: 6b04aadf446f78b0f965969964569b8f1f06ff9ac31618232e730136c54011e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point 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 phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chess+starting+moves
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd7baaf02f---serene.pdf
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb123b06bd91ae2a7e2fce5d15ae2408/mobelixonunotitababez.pdf
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/893e4e85c35a54e385c4dde9f0a2b85e/20539608793.pdf
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2asluds3051j4br0bclapr4777/3656382077.pdf
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tdpi1qvedc4mfbohqnn9l91kvt/44577370399.pdf
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be36cd56447---kunerakotufisobe.pdf
    • http://www.celso.org/download/japopuze.pdf
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bb99a6ddf684ac88d32ce74d64c6663/40909856904.pdf
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36bef8b59a2e0029cb7f8b8b39f382af/56308956512.pdf
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774d069bb97---51248690938.pdf
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808ba0338f4---6462963372.pdf
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79ab99e12b2f3c7af2a8b8e196c4d78d/56617354818.pdf
    • https://bearings.vn/images/ckeditor/files/61696932686.pdf
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d834e3951e083aa849826d24924273b/6714130180.pdf
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/153be8829946a0120c45d4f57b12100e/85789184863.pdf
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3414ebaa859ce581568ff428bafa238d/vevofudesirinel.pdf
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/18517285792.pdf
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/60547489752.pdf
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff26f13234329a45e6dd13fb27f62001/12467258409.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1h4sqsaepudirbgipkr80ulco/letojup.pdf
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c10436ee84---lesapawelewikeboso.pdf
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aacc0d26650---rajos.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8de.bin
9ce902cfc154865fee730209b0ac13d3e31614d408387126c9c59693f44f9f70
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8DE 17916 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012789.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12789 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013f9a.bin
3af19d48fed7925e7fa90baf6a8c41d6b464993f730fa80f9e875915f330045f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F9A 17416 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001594e.bin
74b24b21557639ef96f0f8b9fbcdebd177f65b8e8dd4425e0452611148e08486
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1594E 10604 bytes