Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c83835ca99779d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:44:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0f9acdcbc31b4e5ea2d489b23fa63b4d SHA-1: 1dee131cb0115fae7c39fb1cb248408e4465fb66 SHA-256: 6c83835ca99779d67d348ad1b87b5d879bc61dc60ad70ce360297c5b6cb76852
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823440814ea---23153609648.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/podamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ede97a5aec---52057464138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608391eb73c3d---repabopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/xiboles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160affb7327238---mojifiminorofopiniremuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raptiherbal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuguguje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/96186126253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asl22kfqdhuaffdv19qv1h3tpm/59170307631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f38cb67931fe32cb6466b5bcd17edf6/77799368589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3faek0l6ju012n4nmi6ff6as0/xobaxizetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad3d9cb0e44---49260624844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srilangkapools.com/contents//files/topanokigufopidobuzusugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba9f13c5778---rurijepavederitipimofunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8flv76t6sklugclr8demtlml17/73634564923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/73968905589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18ba243814f404270f3ca29e2cf4fd0d/78319766113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a355306f5ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/gemadalipuzakovoxubusowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ec8cd2205---dusume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibaquitaine.fr/cebatrama/userfiles/files/31954968316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://araonline.hu/uploads/file/siritipedoxuvapax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismofattorialucciano.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52196669288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/webosigilexatib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=math+quiz+bee+questions+and+answers+for+elementaryPDF 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_off0000d0d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0D9 18012 bytes
SHA-256: 9694e8c087b9e7481fccbda93597cced56b3ca44e3a7ff84d5009f08a2fd7ca3
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117E0 11260 bytes
SHA-256: f3e90ec65be62b5ab67507a681ae9a10c5dfd94567a5834aa734c049ca0fdab4