Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b8f2ea1208e8263…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-08-23 19:24:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4dc72c79d36ead44c8d1c31ea6d94623 SHA-1: a54f160508e0b6bd4fe6444b93bac4c6f0ad22bb SHA-256: 6b8f2ea1208e8263949102ae353e6d610788e43c5785f7cbea81ee567b421221
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of ClamAV detection and ML classification as malicious further supports this. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest an attempt to host malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=honolulu+arrivals+today PDF link annotation
    • http://cokhitienvuong.com/uploads/files/54135979301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/9602295981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085865fdd48d---vefijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nkcophs50threunion.com/clients/0/01/014062e559e26c1cf0711bcec4e573ae/File/61014984934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e95ed94189a---68082920777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607995e93d0d7---32962334021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad279576eb01fa1199abd0a621fac4aa/jademumuxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ffarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/badutevutodatalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b46ii59ereocumo9okeg0o0b7e/zuzojobonewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47cd85c5b3---rokelisegumuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/piwoperafunawuduseta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94b9096c15---26246195989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motiwalainstitutes.org/userfiles/file/60931954928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80c44619bb---44357752718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/928f60b69881b2eac9bd97284097dd50/lalena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be5c04a5b6---71760405574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/keboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/nilogifisikasupirakutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07db60fbe82627841dbe4a330aca3110/79323581910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attep.com/home/sandbox/domains/heekee.com.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98073202817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecfae41b3299e8bf591d82eee10a9a96/93315749586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/20739234113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e1629a837a2595cffafa3d1cc9443a4/wanogevove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/me2lemdje607f0p8escdli60fe/sipivaxikivevomad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaktutzhit.by/uploads/files/kegimowusagejipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8e6a08e505---kidasorosolojesaxajukil.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_off0000d525.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD525 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 4c0992c3cd2e68640bb1d44fc02255c3680f22e911bfc57bdf06f37b7b74163d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB5 16672 bytes
SHA-256: 271aecdda361856baab953f44f38fae7eb7fa8fa56cb3c6043b87cc9210aa461
font_02_sfnt_off0001181b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1181B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1