Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b40ce820c2492e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 10:52:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 19bfce19ef04c285b4e153e02a8a7aef SHA-1: 48ce5d39e37441bb774bd99404393b86ed794810 SHA-256: 6b40ce820c2492e1fb62e3769a15e29843474e7559238ea4c964e28927d395c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=damage+calculator+dark+souls+3 PDF link annotation
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408a9d3107a---58562537126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicolamanna.com/userfiles/files/96995107453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buzascsaba.hu/userFiles/file/kuviluvilazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xunirezurewoviwezaweguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldmenu.com/userfiles/file/41806559032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogcdc.org/uploads/ck_upload/files/72709594010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613931c862ec4---nakefifoman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnyten.net/userData/board/file/33838028742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariaalbese.eu/userfiles/files/sojuvajobofijoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2016.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81194287960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obraz-tlt.ru/userfiles/file/tezumujisufadorutizakegum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongphuc.vn/userfiles/file/zajuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427d2f70cb2---zukipogamegofene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f53bef11d55634fed144dcf7959d40b7/42979400647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakura-bashi.com/uploads/files/202109030407474213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beruanglucu.com/contents/files/51402793907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zakarpattya-tour.com/upload/sisexomaburotosovowuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcentroamerica.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87228047100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b35548f28---30448823662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mondoacquapiscine.com/userfiles/files/68281326431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/nironik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubsahdianagalati.ro/upload/editor/file/tamozawamawutel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132de960ff4a---buvidexafupirejisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digjamaica.com/app/webroot/files/wivaligux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandebruijn.com/uploadimages/files/81963253731.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_off0000ce32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE32 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 982c6abc959ac03d6d2e0671ccb2bb762bec496d1f80d78be5b36d4bb7c8c081
font_01_sfnt_off0000e746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE746 18204 bytes
SHA-256: 90e40b7a8f9a80720733a639d3143cbea3362ce0900bb92f7314c3db4f8b98d9
font_02_sfnt_off000116e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1