Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c6ef5f3a6c495d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-09 04:37:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: b6f23543ce19276562e55ddf71205970 SHA-1: 97cdae837ad07582e2424db1f823251de9d6dd31 SHA-256: 6c6ef5f3a6c495d20103db134c9c8d5e74a2b5b3ad02f9950d6f5ac22a81bdcf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=alloy+of+iron+and+nickel+is+called PDF link annotation
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6ece5b744---pesixatoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/senazul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpwlawpa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wabuxijexuxonaxodimegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbb4b88d224---48506078713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mt53fkbklijkl8ha3h1lhmn415/xugobakiwowedun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanidom.pl/img/file/wadumizupevezegunixote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdalehorseboarding.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78984409640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanzmendia.com/userfiles/files/28432053936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46afdcd5ae---resulamoweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5ed257b5d187f18f6697b7dd99f9585/98075722696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/luwiwixov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petikdaun.com/contents//files/lavewokuzaboxagaresuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608501d69973f---67842797798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/dukefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/66204324494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34273524cc---xowebesuziloposig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad0638f88e---18499773782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6166ed92e0---23811936526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/jabatulinorenukipol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607276c0e1fcc---zoguxerutefedipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9at5a5j0la5njvtc6plke5qab/84938552206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8afc371d32---tixajubulozezudor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lahma.pl/_u/userfiles/file/witokirasudit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754bd4195b0---73736776325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160891c4a73183---zutoxididobukijozuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f337.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF337 10560 bytes
SHA-256: c5011114b340eba4a911e7505d5c644f45dc8202f23c7731a4943d0cc101bdb6
font_01_sfnt_off00010b65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B65 17752 bytes
SHA-256: 69606fcb8bac7819d20a5d7811d240297b62f53517b97ab77cb075cd776db576
font_02_sfnt_off00013a5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1