Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b592aa4e2f36be5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:31:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2039491ccc826d5a8c0c4bce81d85782 SHA-1: 78fa6d68387447fce0f825a30f27c3adbe422ec4 SHA-256: 6b592aa4e2f36be5c2983d808859e34518b013929480e859e7ebc2db7a78e84e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware delivery campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e31ea9526df7bea21cf92b74fe7721e/xozigeruxuxagof.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tomaszskiba.com/userfiles/file/62548557958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/75937360889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ropaalmayoreo.com/images/userfiles/file/dapotawovugekik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totoquynhhuong.com/upload/files/babinodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aec732c933bcf7d87e08bcf7d090d4a1/9297269086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mqskin.com/luutru/files/diwenilinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/vadazaxikivazemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irvinenott.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liwuvobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/vokajogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/87943819829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/1038147343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b7237b546---30401559910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/2021721238438482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/bejasonekufalavupesade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/80961944681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/8106038749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mkvcbvoc92em6nl1jdoaauba9r/65986214096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuzoku-kyujin.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tagikutali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anpo.vn/upload/files/92725551485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098afaa5eb2b---52821827370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eab4d8f22a---wosur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/30504293347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=furacao+anitta+pdf+leo+diasPDF 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_off0000e856.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE856 18780 bytes
SHA-256: 6f507f3135e68e5851d4e73c28edd8b43637b9411baef08cbab92db07d50a1c8
font_01_sfnt_off000118c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130DA 10688 bytes
SHA-256: ca022debe6355bba1b078894ec497ecd48ec96ea45909e63a365e55495dec703