Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6be0f78c2afc3133…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-06-12 09:16:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b0b08cebb97c54840b63627dcc841aa2 SHA-1: aebcf25c90b1d11a672b18639ba984ddcd26b854 SHA-256: 6be0f78c2afc31333bfd9ca9049ec3afb96d262e55130856df75258ce15412d7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious, likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates a pattern of luring users to external resources, potentially for credential harvesting or malware download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7921

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=business+studies+class+12+chapter+1+notes+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd0bde0e63029ec3bbf1eac1643d5dbf/zijazig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/gobazavonifujibavaxane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/80862881336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e9496d96229c56771c978a60d58b4b2/vamosubonuwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979aee10799---83529403132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5dfebc6ae---33252105647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5a17cafcc1e8a7453365deb6cfee39f/94082336310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35ds94kn2v7bb5vjum0o46npod/25188725579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc62ae9227---56024730077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c34dd78b39b---voduwatigebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5be70e90019518c63264f42a61758b02/6393225639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096cb2fe11d2---pijodemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffbfda7573---xobifunivorufatopixajijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b27334fab8---defusuludedunakexifapane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2daf3ae0f1d0c7f55615d9a5b18c6e2/13424640012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koratspring.com/upload/file/98076135744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/zaxanugawew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010cce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CCE 5448 bytes
SHA-256: 512e47d6e7d0f280864e30037ef518e5ce9a61acd65b189b1f104b1fc1adcb59
font_01_sfnt_off00011f5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F5D 11120 bytes
SHA-256: a062695f82f3811003508b7e1a7d7cd7391000d794f81743ba0287272000ef9e