Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b07219104b24623…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:27:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 16016390cd555e1917b8644db97069f4 SHA-1: f973a461bd3882b4d5db74164e431b9cf1d24b00 SHA-256: 6b07219104b24623572026486df85238ea34fbafb2caa932f6d715c0e33304b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dry+salting+fish+processing+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756f3465335---48279448261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.com/files/usersfiles/files/33335882232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bepxuyenviet.com/upload/files/66706283572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a3c77bfd4---58981090544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/014qqp23svti8tmfbv39oqdb03/13846086921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipsgroupjjn.org/userfiles/file/tidagisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/velobelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/22866445021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cded9bab9e---63859098828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b78d077efca03079174b1a9a4da48bf7/53788551741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nieruchomosci-swidnica.pl/userfiles/file/jotojewomulaxexuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed23e2e532b40e3b5ac8db2a5e19faa1/salopadularuribudik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802d3af04e9---rojiwodudededujapazitix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9937051483236f199ffd8cf93e5fde58/32864842046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://merohamro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14702003309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7044500e7ed91705fe48616143ae44f5/silomigan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50648455b6---91313341762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1504f6d8b882cdf86b1565588c93f600/86978897086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ced2bd7525f6e56dc2eb2f6157f4f318/sejanupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayxaydungthienlong.com/uploads/files/files/vejutiwazinevokus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/xotedopabomojufopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f68a27e0254---29088191814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qctc.vn/upload/files/gazakeberejizepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsl.asia/files/tawofopejewixugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/94080295658.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_off0000d38a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD38A 11012 bytes
SHA-256: f6a37a27b814f143e27996dc97ab1edb4146a999053e5bfb2cb03c51a90df4ec
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECDE 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 70feef1ef885606475ffe1310edf55dc4465173e73246ed0c3be4fd60ff17178
font_02_sfnt_off000119e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1