Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c3a8271b5089538…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-17 07:43:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d42a2c3c0567bf73fc8e96ed0c5bde88 SHA-1: e932727b80b664a453286f7d059d11be231de9f4 SHA-256: 6c3a8271b5089538e4f2be1cd77aa49d8eb165899bd5782eadde97867793c05b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a476220b7e7---dowoxoguv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc69f732ba4---zevukamekit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754480a7cb9---bonisejazoxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgrids.com/userfiles/file/doromawafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baggiez.net/userfiles/file/7182598186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d74422f2445---24431673125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607720da22385---75388453634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a621cdc1790---9080844762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71ohfqhai5d3ughuc2h0bvkng0/62800884689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5o4mp19g7btfjhshdrv2uj9cv3/7050427551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc8fd4d45fad8c9dbf6ef34f2aa365ad/badeguluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c43865c195b---73449734854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608215c71837f---bekepikaviruvafubita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdqjlm41rppr7ssbktor3j3fsc/fikutiwamiwexaxofep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7si612rflp31do2lsqlj6pec9/peromejujowuxekowulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vem3ldk7vm71sdledkib6j5ecn/ladoxesikede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-kamera-rendszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60929179891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badrivishal.com/media/92853645850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6tksq0grrg5vnjt9690uq9gk7f/35189889419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c42f2013bb69a703a847775fb110abb/kozivoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2500f693d6232a9e2e9ed9b311e1186/61370537659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c8a2ec95da917081842ebfe60870cf7/lovopipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e81190b8c---66074585109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcremich.lu/files/files/36171410494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/parelaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=space+shuttle+drawingPDF 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_off0000f32c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF32C 16392 bytes
SHA-256: 0bcf66abda8acb04b1a10c329570ea27aefa161cb9df19fb69761d33465eaa28
font_01_sfnt_off00011d9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9D 10936 bytes
SHA-256: b037316111a27369d806a72aed8d6e926d062132cf155ce6eb3fb3da2a78a8c3
font_02_sfnt_off000136c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1