Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bc3821b1502065e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 16:43:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 025d397d6cecba8e25308f6f24559621 SHA-1: 32de20ca26c08473cfa6b76dedc5a9f72af13c00 SHA-256: 6bc3821b1502065ef54c10cd184df868fbf2cce027b26d0ae642c212f5ebba37
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains, likely intended to lead users to phishing pages or further malware. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest an intent to deceive or infect the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convocation+day+meaning PDF link annotation
    • https://consultingexpert.eu/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vinixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa97d61931c---nogepozepigidenabofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pressvaluation.net/userfiles/file/2538514792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf2af1d0ce---24763362628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c309c1d10c3a0d2254ca88a4fb790eee/jelibodozotipodanezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/93548270721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e659ab52aa---95389400941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4f0dcf2da8---gobufajeperipevari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbc2b70e46---42326827951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607474d3a9526---34523632199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6c7be95a5---tapugifolezopufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/tisogefudobasivelaled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607838e8768a5---98747617646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-4/20210504213151797964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compsult.net/userfiles/file/52592857816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcf2f14293fb3f8f5e9c60f05e7cea8b/51692657394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05666c68ff3edb0abc86f137f4a5df9a/kilopapetivafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/kagerapodudipaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1984wnhs.com/clients/2/25/250e0aaa51dad033202e6c34d8602b4d/File/leribinukeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b489370e3---musasumuzeromiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f18350e1831d2887de02342b6719540/49432647581.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_off0000fd42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011554.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11554 16600 bytes
SHA-256: 1dea74b2da58d61a11d7b8dc9764b96406d992c6daca17e5e8f7bbf5de3a113b
font_02_sfnt_off0001408c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1408C 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 6a6d0877670db98377199950aa3a4946cf0b09b9a4f77a701dae44acbd71d4f1