Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b76e05ea9e5c531…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-08-04 23:02:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: fb88738c85281c86655331f3d179c2c0 SHA-1: 6ea7a185c96829c0302f2e59ea832de2d1c0cd4a SHA-256: 6b76e05ea9e5c5312d7668390bb01321b266010539c14e40349d7ccddf128bae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is a phishing or malware distribution vehicle. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=yamaha+psr+260+keyboard+price PDF link annotation
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gk13h6k07diq8oqb3s9biqnli1/lasezutitixuvaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/gakegejojizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9f5ac82fdc---28738761440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/lalelelotafedami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fongyoskert.hu/userfiles/files/41744960595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021052809225670554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf262d92298---xapepibuvimejolub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855bf6ac582---fovubixexoliwodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/gomidabukana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuvanthietke13-5.com/webroot/img/files/36234424148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/253n6n9poatstn0thge28d6r2r/85497333185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/95788371449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d5b5b6825---6416488686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa3210a7f1---851352427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a439dd15fe58bafbe61d25af33f02445/44332524826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094533a793a6---76628754197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a563909b7c8---65997219326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082997cd0de2---60185725672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/493d63e6b5ea4394b23ed8428b007106/nepadekuvamegepofubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayhovietnam.vn/upload/files/zegukad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c5d7cd566---6970674765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f871b7d208f2752455f2ec42daf34abf/vodol.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_off0000cb28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB28 17308 bytes
SHA-256: b947340b10005f8b5c4744b248b689bc0d295bdf116d0b975e4d8d9bef8a4b79
font_01_sfnt_off0000f829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF829 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 1d2c1bb87984c197de6ad57f86d0dd0b591de8e7b5743de45a44a5e83770fd65
font_02_sfnt_off00011267.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11267 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1