Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b5bbe6e000d9162…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-27 23:10:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a1d7c5e104c9e182fea89c77e07911d1 SHA-1: 288a2e90ee37c773e0f5fc1d731f9351698b2b38 SHA-256: 6b5bbe6e000d9162518d5e026d33463ae5c1ec36139151898467829ede1cb417
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3030c426ec2a50da5b7e6955fc289826/75094066061.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e3f0bf0d5---wixomasusafelibaxodisep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46de167551c44fc4ac3fa7caa36ed028/38572123745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chemasan.lu/userfiles/files/49150336394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3k60tolki8i9aqp780m5rju94/98793738364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f99v2dnns3hovudc48ma0edsc6/tuvexolosuloxubiwerexat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangonebike.com/uploads/file/77180999884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083545917e28---87166121914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ekbin62of31sner16n8lngqo21/nejogezivanopepedijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbd60bb459b---67728102061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0276b1732f43f757b93b76a1bd1b8eaa/madolerinuxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vu2vtrqc2lf08ionajmpj6fo3/94290366633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd542d992316c3684c73bc2799e35ae0/95465494320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvsjpklh3fd47urv92dc8n5lcj/80915329992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0df6c9ad2---zoxotogawugelederog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c13f931d7f---fefupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/viganozewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e8884a304958ee33775b88f41886e2b/93009723862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25134953799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vintageguitar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57559606161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/snj8rc46ipar5ag9ko8eepg1k4/97899842106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/todoredumipuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/16074784439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinecommerce.bg/uploads/pages/files/88951133678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/samiecvnfme5i8mfrsn0qjauhv/vetuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=ps5+camera+pricePDF 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_off0000f2c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C8 17540 bytes
SHA-256: ca8c96e15a4ad8470ef62d4b4ae2622140329839d5caf7ca1a33073906483be1
font_01_sfnt_off00012109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12109 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013920.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13920 10304 bytes
SHA-256: e4dd2959149393f197e38465c0fba924fbc3a913711d52da9a236ef8056a32e8