Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bdcda0d85674eff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 19:19:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8beb9330cc9bc40cacc917619657399f SHA-1: bd905c990c1c2a61bfe86bff405d5452f61c60ff SHA-256: 6bdcda0d85674eff2c6bfbebac63ae4c7b67644fb502be7ce02ad88b4eb137f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as redirects to phishing sites or malware downloaders, a common tactic for initial access via spearphishing attachments.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13f2490e7c---31869441508.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ota7b6lghlvrd1d9g0968gbb24/girukinuvezuposapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52j338snnqdoip0krkjrglv0oe/25680582482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/44531946477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088db416cda6---fobivuwugolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f1fa05ee3---rejodavam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/88668386209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/7304031357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c680f3ae79d9c58fd1afe4e348a58671/vudifibamefedagoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608085c2f081c---79265138701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/20216251247178742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/wapezupamogogukuxubujuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmuniontravel.com/userfiles/file/wibizepuwozokunib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d243bb5217a---57765660161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/artcjmnei92gcmk4navfto8lc7/64024100716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/37890919766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf0d1723f8d11a74bcb3174db127baec/vizetoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/35103577667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qq6orac5o2a3v56qir8mal9r13/sepuwosifodev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc8cc804fa---wunuvozomejovapoxoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/47291943731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgr8tmse4aekjiudc25h4omuo4/25786206586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7cce1d049a26b7878661ef5413f71b3/xefakita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/55434149563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=early+signs+of+cholecystitisPDF 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_off0000efd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD0 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 5ef03691432204e5b8e280c7e149cb68f4ff5f4b2b70d91f3e195efe9561dbfb
font_01_sfnt_off0001085d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1085D 16888 bytes
SHA-256: 77fae9b578a8317097e1e974de99ad57cc9838a2997e186d3838e32a1040afdf
font_02_sfnt_off00013478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13478 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1