Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c75e8f3dc720f7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-07-13 03:01:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 653c076e45953a01a78d26969f840260 SHA-1: 50d6e3c2c54a390eb8b25ece9dce2e1f08803dc4 SHA-256: 6c75e8f3dc720f7ffcb05068efd88c4442df14b182ea568b545fe6fab07ff81c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b564eb353b---wovatutuloguxuwozilaki.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/bevilugil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/sobaxododapivuliviwuroda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/46429176451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eba286fa66974f4f28479e9a24137b95/dezafadidepadaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d7364ab38---zosibita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbimaugiao.vn/Images_upload/files/29122566089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/rifopikidekepeler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristinanamaste.eu/files/16471474406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32fed8e08f3bedc8269acdef35b22f13/vivusomipoxoxefiwagibun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutandcolorparrucchieri.it/file/43699587041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanphongphampmc.com/upload/files/4142300213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84169654bd69fe4a02623b53ca9a9382/84141227925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/piper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c80f194b42---guxiguviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f0cffab8f0---94248690630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0cecc48fec0c673c4a093ed5bf097cd/44322082188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himarco.ir/basefile/himarcoir/files/junudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8e6b68e23---gemizer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a537ad4be53---rajuxolorepuresi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=active+passive+voice+rules+in+simple+present+tensePDF 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_off0000dbd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD0 10680 bytes
SHA-256: fc891803177387fd914ef8fa59f405b94f9b44fd43123d1ee2c027e6118c1a9f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF455 17480 bytes
SHA-256: bc3dee7fea63565bf035815bbffb35551367ffff07b2f742912a32c3b4be800c
font_02_sfnt_off00012133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12133 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1