Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c83757af83559d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 03:04:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 97f0a779243f28d73f69948d86361835 SHA-1: cac960174728cd5a5ac124d13f2f2beb31dc7b44 SHA-256: 6c83757af83559d8e838c7e793b73b16b753d3c56aefea1e163ffe67d25e192f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations. The embedded URLs likely serve as a lure to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials.

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 http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbca1b29cc---84021340012.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c325ae006cc68cb2b9f9732ab936a986/37107966291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctlqpejgkig922p2bab9uv3e8k/45093686217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deesudcoolingtower.com/userfiles/file/25842647387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nh4q9gbnlrovk8ro88asdstia9/91711613142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/27447831246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elm3rad.com/file/numanebarewesebel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/moxusivizigadulanilasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/72842586802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608184ffdfadc---nudosukexapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/74651969549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825fcb20561---27000808357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b49d38e6e0b21ac3e6f35879c2b1b64/ligototumivujaniwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/wilobafivevinefekatiwugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/laleganefegazerifoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ma4b8k7thdk2vtkbs7i73j46bk/xamonesebubugepigotugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gertiesbloomers.com/kousumi/nulook/upload/fckimages/file/tafajasuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e448a70afb0196e6373255535384c45/22503929993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/42230839702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084382d34b9b---giwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmg1p0pe4legsbdum25tsb4l64/62720393921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c859896161---sebovudumazivepolisezopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b6cd96b8ea05eb9bc321268561faf8d/daposexefafavoronoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/39019938807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=book+plural+formPDF 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_off0000fc34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC34 17588 bytes
SHA-256: acd65fa91dfde01f9fea07af9ad352c694aa1b37ac2291636928f07648282ff8
font_01_sfnt_off00012a4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A4B 10172 bytes
SHA-256: 924e69141571b93d6cf72e5dc9c837ab72c2063f3e9e8f55534b7dba0a976985
font_02_sfnt_off0001411d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1411D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1