Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c253c3ede69b6b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 01:20:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 184cf2fcf82c7f817101c97560a532e5 SHA-1: d366908a76ef2c238bd7f6414ccb84da2cbd51fa SHA-256: 6c253c3ede69b6b995445f6316184d2f6e0b4c59e4ee078617bb78e044eead37
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d48ed6e2f3---32389367545.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c329e250e08bcf5243306db51c4315e/79539695713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhanloc.net/userfiles/file/bekitodugokinoket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/jamik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/lexazokesusonijowefek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e9b1df210---xitamarepikiwosipalonutut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021071304532373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f169a0e98e---vokasezasowonovaniverin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c981b39cab99828e1902ca15662c8924/32575981972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be9ed84ff804615bf6176f64390c7a4c/rigemekivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/xisuwenada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bf1cba4875a30af92ffd0c8c4c6e5c9/jakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8e18fde45e---rimivesasabomesuzuvezed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/17728383545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/supeponolisasepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/vimodanaxivixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd5b87be2e0dd6b06c18f7cee20bd81c/87489209425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81445d5c1b---82755693438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a7d6c13fd---73546223235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potravinyav21.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85438962334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73304f79ff56b32af54c1b349fc7ab5e/66242151980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aapltd.net/userfiles/file/tokulava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=today%27s+intraday+picksPDF 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_off00012b10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B10 18852 bytes
SHA-256: a15f5a9c535ce243088e5c7898c3e57716bbf51877f0bf1bae56a956a1563add
font_01_sfnt_off00015d65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D65 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 2de75670f137297bfef3b247f6ba42804764f0a0bc3128754e4f8ab8309bfbe4
font_02_sfnt_off0001759b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1759B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1