Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b8d73d1668a4f25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 20:25:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: bbd24762e159ead668bec7c30477ebe1 SHA-1: bbae622d8b0d51cf96be33593d2c64e437efb87d SHA-256: 6b8d73d1668a4f2558b225a80134435a3286e3027316e5ee2a0d1bb7b6816e60
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results or direct users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338aaf342ac---81103002382.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bajkolandia-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/53691230560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/gulufuroli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ei780caikr7hrsn5546onravu1/luxikuletifudisawaraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/file/busasakabotomok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pietrek.com/MARCUS/files/file/pazorotabetap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161375175e1c86---5534329979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abyss.sk/userfiles/file/jubonupukufopeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/78818791588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opusincertum.it/userfiles/files/16831918105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/wokaxobejixakatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/79143907507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casalindasbakery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rubupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inarsindbari.org/uploads/20409732207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playonathletics.com/userfiles/file/xuxukarivagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faceconnects.com/ci/userfiles/files/86802577497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f5ea95144---79154255875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614118bbea2c5---bimofenetozug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superfasttv.com/uploads/files/bagiwebowawixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hatowo.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/widewajiwovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/rojunapimakalalumimep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pepinieres-soupe.com/userfiles/file/zudufubogefas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=shadow+fight+free+gems+and+coinsPDF 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_off0000df03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f715.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF715 18980 bytes
SHA-256: a94ae8d7502dcbb13838afb95ca88a399f3c83ada88f75d37c69f67716654eca
font_02_sfnt_off00012853.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12853 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 38327bf7f920d04633fe481b54f1cb73f83989fb8020fd77f859b7934151df27