Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c85ddcd6fc4e177…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-06-24 16:46:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2d4f946ae5c796b5125f54e3edbdb657 SHA-1: 476e4620ae5d0c365246f750cc03a3f4d0a3eb6b SHA-256: 6c85ddcd6fc4e177ddedcd59b33d9a89007e25a28e3845c7881fb65d6894e607
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of a 'download' button heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://papiratisk.cz/soubory/nanoloxozitatozuvo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f70122d54af8d35f1bb84aa16bff7936/zevajolobegulelazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/desupewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097cc9588f8c---mizudumivunabaxagejidopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac56f67fbde---58878134123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae254f3cb1---baxalekokumeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c6c28e98c---20987760749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80fe8e4c0167266201852351e3015405/tufozobubabipomefagogarub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tplustech.com/images/ckeditor/files/69580146717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rnkmhqskvfr03kdaekkmul81uo/52725174974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/sbsisnew/userfiles/file/motuvoxinezidadaduresul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609adeb2ee383---tadevifavibaketamobunit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/mobipuwuwenavobigorivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/99851751418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g453h7cnsl63r70l83sm1g04pi/jokola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f959fe098623ac2194979902856449e7/jekelebeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=spardha+vijetha+kannada+magazine+pdf+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC286 5724 bytes
SHA-256: 62a00b3a5509fa2c6462fe160789a8abf7317a534f91b0d95cd1ea45012a2001
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5FF 3328 bytes
SHA-256: 377d4b21e6044569779a883c0048a6d1eb56dc6a3259d7a5051a6bbeef0824b1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e384.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE384 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 9cd981b41f723d1f5c0599fba8f51280ac9d58f678c60e6d0e852f3bce651ebe
font_03_sfnt_off00010876.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10876 16512 bytes
SHA-256: b0b64954ded6ca40f409c8aa92f06eecfddf061275ec509028a00cd78d6ccfc5