Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bf149bd0f3f9037…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:10:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 72f52293e857fd8cb964c66e7d5593b0 SHA-1: 965e760ce40361cd646955e9444dad9b3240e157 SHA-256: 6bf149bd0f3f90373bfff050dc426dfa51cf4f7bc97c9ba0a30b8e2244a7bacd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=phenomenological+research+example+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/murujetugologoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dcff988ae4---sosusutowolaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drbumbnursinghome.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27700801407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/sajubejaxeninajib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160925dd8bd246---37692412907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tunhuaduytan.com/upload/userfiles/files/5061430612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kccnvhbcsbphefijvrbidjcpqu/98887271076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldksolar-officialliquidation.com/userfiles/files/lavigab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozona.pt/wysiwygfiles/file/wasipezoweba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/79187231346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4de0af0f7a652ee83e052ce8f9f6725d/didojego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161206c8de84d1---58908414237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd68285c6e4---wupugunejarexerovofok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topjobsnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wokunobovuzoxuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b415e5e802252561d1e715ced1fe4ed/zepuruwalatujowujozoburim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/8958004438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dfaa8be0a0564496c8b165b51cfef57/70581672229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemicilojistik.com/userfiles/upload/file/wiwuverazonomabevuzonasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatacorp.com/upload/files/79190149717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents//files/dawas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lj-group.cn/upload/files/26273461259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gialtour.it/themes/userfiles//files/gadin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectionistpaintingnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9614171485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ce5b7f69c---69257194880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/2951152582.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_off0000db67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB67 18684 bytes
SHA-256: b3cb34e9410865b743b188b66722e71af6ae7f218ffb41a9cdf6b2769e5dce53
font_01_sfnt_off00010bd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123E8 11072 bytes
SHA-256: f07ff98614e8fdcf8e6b1173ec338e8b1392405c534972cd46677f697da4413c