Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b075c2eafc3f800…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 08:44:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8e3c247c02cf4b5ff6a6e04e4562066e SHA-1: 0ced03a93141c08419e6809c539e47ee598e2359 SHA-256: 6b075c2eafc3f800d0600b0cc02be93993b7a83e853291c5166f0085c9c16705
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive use of external links is the primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wikianswers+sign+up PDF link annotation
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96604225c8---rokurutirisaviduzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c5c8046af7dc9b823493576dce63fe9/76217252310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bd655a087f---78401885440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aaptuk.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xivusiximinoduxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/nusati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12qgasdkg44km8f2gj5jkuimsh/jinijumazutuwixerazineto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc08b0c20b---pomot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d58a3a50ff---78556340927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2m5b8m0l8t3v4t5id001gtk1v6/pakexizokajivukuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/gaketajogetiwalabetezafaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mik2pc0i6gbe4plgc8j47jk8s0/zesezeximaxenigilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa6e20dc4f---suxudibogonobumamolizotir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obl33n4k8nc33l3kpfn9oe1s0d/lovebesepixuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92238965567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/77531310342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasarimak.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fisatogakemezamekuxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/nojogemajawaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/waruvuzirebobifivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/famunoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc76384d59eb14cdb115bfc26749a1d9/lubuvejotive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/legomefowowarekamapegenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/933f2b5efd21164aef96b40d72d0ecf4/bipisabiwidite.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC2 16252 bytes
SHA-256: bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
font_01_sfnt_off0001019e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1019E 17400 bytes
SHA-256: 74454cdfcea6aa0d1d4c680b8d76ebc793c9a23f1363b432e110d42eb6918494
font_02_sfnt_off00012ed5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ED5 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 5161774dbae962815ca0a52239877e152fc3096ff647abc7d8c7f8043d5a158b
font_03_sfnt_off000146ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1