Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b3dd8a9300d3d79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 13:42:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6cdb40e7a784834915fe4785c9c1e45e SHA-1: 97c55b0a0d6b397347c1a1b99adbd3e074fa835a SHA-256: 6b3dd8a9300d3d7941e22e2a19c9ca7b1615c858c27e4ed8717a38c1120d715c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://purmoradiatoriai.lt/images/files/boraz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/3444426732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/49195862475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/54099029780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83742dba806153b981ca31d698fdaeac/10682021368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjd1n3lernuldlp01vo3avflgv/zavokolapafovojezokum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92580a815---tixukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b4fc49e33---94820439575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c38a15ae979---98887010569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a1f4f9c2f5ef3eb07e6c88366563700/84618638136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/087e6425c48892c33706ba21bb271a21/durotabobegepaduno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ae6f17fd24815f1087aedb3ceb0b6bb/34612715235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be458da16c3---vepivijazivodorisolil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/subowemofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a40617e2bb4---35926112530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bona-agra.pl/Upload/file/lokolanakezobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a911b5824---sunubedekagawalobag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarlampa.ru/upload_picture/82948480341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/021dd0325f748566ebd9714b2dc9c6f2/rorixiwaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92ad13861f---48224245960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/jomosamoxiwevowabidez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/44745678460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607447e3eeef9---9620785171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oilandgaswork.com/userfiles/file/35178927779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=heritage+high+school+basketball+coachPDF 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_off0000f35f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF35F 10628 bytes
SHA-256: ec0ed77f74c5430e7fd0266a855eb09dae0031a16d8e4d56094d19fa7d2811c7
font_01_sfnt_off00010bca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCA 17116 bytes
SHA-256: 4d5125c0076ca72b9050028188dfc7f3ab2a1674e5ad2454b0c006a7e98f0cbf
font_02_sfnt_off00013889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13889 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1