Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c10e8f394788bb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:18:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8ccb42a813b1bdb65d31fc856734eb1a SHA-1: 052c88a9649cea5f008d7904988f24534d622d55 SHA-256: 6c10e8f394788bb12f6fa54d43c54a057bf2da68298a02044db869b6bb36d34d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

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 http://michalpavlicek.com/uploaded/file/890720211.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1e5f524eb---14254280703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sukaxige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4a8323d99c3acfd989658d4c71e0dfc/80944262524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161110d6712b54---wofituxipukazisejasiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsphc.com/userfiles/file///89283369311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/56135638049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608360562df50---foxidegojenidurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3cd589246ebc456434126b937bfbdf6/pidigugakotiwenosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/wokadikusowifobuliliposi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademia-jedenastka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/paduniza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs1966reunion.com/clients/1/1c/1ca8f1639ee69cd7806809ed3bcda9bb/File/12107703700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumag.pl/userfiles/file/gejudajitudusevulodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xeroxexpres.cz/userfiles/file/49646665117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b927af3e963---35723022512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021072310494073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606edfb81196e---64657503521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/fakelanabugaluxejejufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1000families.eu/userfiles/file/16011902586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/47530863976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/32393582721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d417f2c005f49b2123ff217ed1250aa7/gutarosixilifutova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b302d85df---92718654240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodama.it/userfiles/files/tasarobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=whole+numbers+worksheet+for+grade+4PDF 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_off0000c574.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC574 16456 bytes
SHA-256: 5a6e103a6319ca7735772a25dcbb770b33cd60cda1065b9584927d5f71f10bbf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f06b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF06B 11196 bytes
SHA-256: d0d2c936cd5cf7e82ae0715c20e9b14bee8e890487a5989dede949bab40fd37b
font_02_sfnt_off00010a60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1