Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c396ebc5b00c6aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 21:50:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c35dc5f4aa33a50efab6113f7c36c6c9 SHA-1: d06099be009422ce1733ec9b409ed4874c7a5710 SHA-256: 6c396ebc5b00c6aaffc26e8502b4cf7d1caa6167d1e065a98a3b5e99c91a0ba1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, 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 URL patterns are consistent with attempts to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7a5e93abd---32988778803.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/3308372814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c76e9d3516---gagemagamipujopozixafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cbv1rrtjsiaecdpnnn4ls8s9g/xuzuzined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837694b7554---jepukoxamenaraponune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73e83b6537---25060291322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rexasarasot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad23e57f425---46648566657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serka.com/serka/upload/files/27476637139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5125rojorkuboseelud1mfili4/malikovolalipibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210623045946_824221488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/csdut6ja9jlept6n0vecktq4ji/87672846096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077083dc8c08---53278381464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df594d3e43b972e9523f5453d953e236/vufojutikar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607951324eeac---dazikofaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c29867d30f5256d6a912ea931e3da953/99317158010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoaiduc.com/uploads/files/42234223732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905962ea240---23583235302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/41912142809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d503cd8eb---nupazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bixenony.com/userfiles/files/kuxonogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=physical+exercise+paragraph+for+class+7PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8E 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
font_01_sfnt_off0001020a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1020A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A21 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 3b9a5270e9dd68bc59038d0a24daefceb8f1cf72cf44d127162fbb2b1a39afc1
font_03_sfnt_off00013355.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13355 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 98dc37f98afc1c573745a350c1b7bc3bf696522230b1c2e53ed7ac9d99ab4ee5