Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bbf4cc462f62ee7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:43:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8380ffb3f9aeb1347def53033ef5f632 SHA-1: 0735accda656b9c0cf917334577929a4b40bc803 SHA-256: 6bbf4cc462f62ee7a3ba3ec2508d2e22aa9a725f1141a5aec6ffc1ae9fa0bba4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=unicellular+and+multicellular+organisms+ppt
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab6801fd9b---kanewutuze.pdf
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c80684672a7f2b688d9fc582c54e3e59/27623832440.pdf
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/65982641225.pdf
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4a8b3e1a727fac0144cb49a7d67dae9/zuwoxesuromoxunevipu.pdf
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6e46308785---7034614702.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c00ea7670f1edf797f4fc33df49cf571/34555961574.pdf
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8baa0b6ad---sidiru.pdf
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a363670285357569edacfb2f45dd4af/70601197917.pdf
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4617a5fda1---67410745232.pdf
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad7fb44e6c---70550512400.pdf
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j51gem5o5qv86u0ujgaecdo7b4/tedivowozex.pdf
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bed7368e3---72809637852.pdf
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae1e7a6683---ditanuluromufu.pdf
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2e3976988221767ea8e8d38cacb35c8/jegezimegojuvalowuxejimi.pdf
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/sidami.pdf
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086be526d065---lufejafimubepejex.pdf
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb6583b618de20505d6545291ff8a22f/dejovipovatujor.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b3b8.bin
d5258ea578bb2fcb263e50c9e870a56503d8d989cb1585a29d2e30046e9db47e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3B8 16600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000de4f.bin
11e99b8c9748833a27ec4eda595f286bc8b929007b2b6a3c719f67a7d2014cf5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE4F 10964 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f78c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF78C 16792 bytes