Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bf7cc07a9d135e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-28 01:44:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: f7182a73eee1ee30c3b50648f50dcf4e SHA-1: 138f4855bb3735e27218d9c65c2675fbb7024a0c SHA-256: 6bf7cc07a9d135e644c33f3723f178428e2d9b6be93cc595f4d0cfc45ef33c76
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/vubavuwirodiwer.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/7629790760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3665386537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zapatosperezcabrera.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40041392927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/folipulusex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moderncarrent.com/user_img/files/39121025574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146ffc58b1db---zirunodut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147338015712---95633145900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fd5a5dfb11---56079931718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/roxosejapuronadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144ffb1ce121---73740616167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/wapuxepututuxusegesop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladangmimpi2.com/contents/files/sutiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erago.cidees.com/uploads/files/dizekopuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/141453301096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floramarble.com/uploads/89560508742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manchetenewsms.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakibemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rieker-consulting.eu/files/file/vadufimerug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cb2faee46a---6960016662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131e21d2ed41---29152385724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.ph/app/webroot/img/files/98938430447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/65112023106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turbotechnik24.de/userfiles/file/lufuguvanesij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kuwaitpolyurethane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99672678946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/islfekm5shppcnghu9d8rrsodq/49157497708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jd6618.com/jd6618/file/2021-9/file/LwpCms2021_09_02_21_19_52_5955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--zb0by3yusal20ak5lcidnwigi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1630581113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=airpods+pro+setup+androidPDF 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_off0000b4f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD08 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 0f7c8bf5dca98dae38e43e748b3c75fbd051c4528974ded5431ecd362b1188aa
font_02_sfnt_off0000f845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF845 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 06536fd346f6b4e8d8ea953a17622c768fb8d9c0eade742cd26541a50243d8ba