Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6beb0332b644123f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.4 KB Created: 2021-06-22 23:52:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 434d862e459ea1485ec3debde2e8e3b1 SHA-1: 08719f1ea8a4e7b1cc63737c6460d6dac60c052c SHA-256: 6beb0332b644123fdf6fc9fce22c0507de1bd21c4e194a3a6accf3c0410bafac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of numerous external URIs and a link farm heuristic strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf87a515f2a---65283766603.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rlr5i62uqd8ue6um7agqe1nnd2/pigakirafaloxamojiref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d209b9917---pozugavupot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.it/userfiles/file/zeximiwesezexosasusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/87333382463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/laviguxoxodejag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080509df3304---39663723142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl_adresuserfiles/file/38894527121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgocsm.in/userfiles/file/rodemebatagubafotisemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.la-rocca.pl/app/webroot/files/files/97969926441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ab93ae54e---47140272054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc98ba05bc5---dotut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e108150d7---84209971796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8befa8baa4---ganimosizodoxibija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=rathnamali+gatha+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ac1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC1D 4748 bytes
SHA-256: 1f28f58f29c1e207fdc02eda511c39361721a9e96ee528ecc00b669d991db74c
font_01_sfnt_off0000bc09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC09 9744 bytes
SHA-256: b20b1552cabe6e76baced16d87a147c1cc8c117b1b27c4e3eac2b863c74c015b
font_02_sfnt_off0000dd5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD5F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378