Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bf5118962e7d251…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 12:35:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f42aa1c6c7960aec2ab5032d06d1e325 SHA-1: f47619ae41fc5bd74230062629c6e450a7cda1e7 SHA-256: 6bf5118962e7d2512aee884d0c387de1c100d27ce9a54fa2344153baea6739dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=otters+baby+seals PDF link annotation
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/bubimivamebefux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haustechnik-hagenauer.at/tipebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/93119801923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arablift.net/userfiles/file/67961184022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tycoonmarine.com/userfiles/files/59888086532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/nupuzesoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e27336cbc---nuwotowoduvesuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c507107d5cc---wofipokideja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb328032dc66bfab9132ea82e3fa0496/jajupatewezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4ef3ce492---69220010434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/dogakurof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9npim7ebfobb0gbemqj1fimbpm/xodenorasov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a99dcd618---94262007751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ec28db13c28199f9e99c00eaecc0190/gozifekaxunelonidabolis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a73b41ff3b---44677088122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c51oo1rcbrd6pcrf7cvv2h6vmn/giruxetepuwalobugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f185f6c62b---bapikoronuxivati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/sufegojidajoraxiripi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a512lo46ari00ucdf290p685k3/fixuguzutokafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0pj4tpip9urdl261gn7g8d9vg6/69393320122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d89lfphtkcnphs4oktfqt173ul/82253863192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/malusikegibonoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9996b2369e---8180314956.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_off000106a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106A0 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 0e77a93f2737c2f58b7aa8fa43c6a075dfd8acfa934ba06f76dbccbade28901b
font_01_sfnt_off000132d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014ae9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AE9 10064 bytes
SHA-256: 998095fa0df8c6c06071e618b9880761cd959bca074c497d895e213e31c1f772