Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6be18f527fd8d539…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 15:45:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bedf0e4f6666564bd2544998831ec769 SHA-1: 579f540197d9a22bf8cc6431ee3f1a42ff6cda86 SHA-256: 6be18f527fd8d539e93155bd1689c4598b4d9d53ce29beec5988d7efdea7809b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to these external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/63484034033.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chatfieldfarms101.com/userimages/rukokadefogarinatirexeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c708ea57170---xevufozisakewipuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a66f5168ee5f7184970ce90592edf22/wajowepizoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8e970f78b---mokukaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xexozelalamozuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99eef07979e26e5171a8cd9827dc8ff8/vasugerodesikedugunovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbece89e8b8087878c944b553a148e58/84158115075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivm420k97nuhttmh4k828os902/kunugaxejawamitepilowin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotween.com/userfiles/file///zejedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/lepimorabefilevuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae1e8053ea3---34561008623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o32sen3qffeaui5mmcvucdhar0/wixovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ce12493b65c64c0f5cb443738fb35ba/dases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/14368479046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dpn89vg3dkcoj4md32idej0pj9/benimuzifugebuvuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagepoorter.be/files/files/falugabalatapumoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a109025b834---kikijitazipojabuvedumud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/bokopebutugujegepezotugix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8fc0d49571---66402469197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855eea63c01---15104279926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home-consult.lu/userfiles/files/zasadufajubosugadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098852edc67a---pujodopixive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=where+is+jumanji+welcome+to+the+jungle+streamingPDF 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_off0000d749.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD749 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 036349f565383322898e70d58313315ac7df99ea055cf7459a98b318c8507f89
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AE 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 1d60df025f04cb08d7d101fb4a71178cd04a445120bcdabf16798ac85fdbc085
font_02_sfnt_off00011ebc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1