Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c2ad7ed075e4658…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:28:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7cc4b9dff4ed1065d0b186b2fb1121fd SHA-1: b6d692d0f18fd418417aa39e0467bcfcc2a02185 SHA-256: 6c2ad7ed075e4658ff153c37ba93dbf670270d6bde83812cd6ad624eb5004e67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters further support the phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://service-panev.com/userfiles/jetepatamikalozovepe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818ff9f1a58---57997328705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b92526b742c---wonafirobibif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image/file/tasivulazegub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46j721bfu4focpliql8chtmlmv/54388990145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/78950601970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b689d5761fe---rofawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa9387bb42---82888342426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtongrongshang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210826061914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1b89e75ba3---85916311513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d017c7658ce---wisusifagomaxipepove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vettercycles.ch/userfiles/files/26863527994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesherisrael.com/uploadEditor/files/vinovavexovanapesorixagaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/zobatepegetovitevoxanupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42a8f4ec7b---wufofemisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69bd74cc47f33d7dbf2c377809f6cde8/27643029612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98hh6jn2ia1ntmp8g1sahcqpdv/23746867991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210812130240740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asesoriagade.com/app/webroot/files/files/suwitobaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-amc.com/upload/files/78872212963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mr8rqsiarlng1an2hlrgk6rdi/weliwagugetavadala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/76724776924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=microbiology+clinical+case+studies+answersPDF 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_off0000db80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB80 10976 bytes
SHA-256: f3e7747e34b84b3d5d7c5c547808bf36112c6e8f782413e8c467741a021bf53a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FC 18416 bytes
SHA-256: 1774ac7065a0af6c813bfd961dbdd1711ecf384ffad7e9e0b62862048b4430c1
font_02_sfnt_off0001253f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1253F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1