Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b71290b0d0a6ec6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-06-13 14:10:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 126f8eac41cdf7899620ea0c9122476c SHA-1: f2236358340a36930214140b15dbc5d8ffa777b4 SHA-256: 6b71290b0d0a6ec6132ef33d84a109749086bf09ce53307ae1cffd8fc7923415
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious downloads. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure for a statistical learning PDF download, which is a common tactic for distributing malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=an+introduction+to+statistical+learning+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://boxerdapolenta.com/cmsimple/images/file/lekizetosunanogisatiliza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hqg4ruh247uqa9a44tbebrpuf3/29468379771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butterfly-propertymanagement.com/userfiles/file/8725943290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14vjgrls4a07r1ics1do2soodt/42157631576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8fa81775cdeb174d4efcc92de7bac7c/megegizeruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094759ddb089---mizowat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lltsg.com/uploadfile/file/%5C/2021060402594210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b81b609e872---83707057713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086053b59eee---32412724760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/835dca2e474898b422a3d50d25cf0586/lojukusewafitaxuletik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/48589516267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64755444138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/64336156547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852e8b0e19f---74298761513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56cd7b988e9900303a7fc4534ba97c5c/tudutalofunudomezitife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/052a20735cea2d7108662116e2d67ead/57590164322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f283.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF283 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 582cb261308521b2e0385e033ab248ee948579154a6f64b1994cffac2a4ad71c
font_01_sfnt_off00010507.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10507 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 62abdef4809f7284b7ea961b95cb11083cfbb6d763abfdd9a544cc96270eb317