Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c85f8ecb26913a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:10:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5e3b906aef78cb5eee3c64dfa91280c4 SHA-1: 74bad65578dac85bae29e76db3ce0b165cc0d991 SHA-256: 6c85f8ecb26913a42349f5ee5b95f5abecf185ca64d7a3e4ff4072f416bdbd6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the URL structure is highly suspicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://dellalontra.it/userfiles/files/59049554365.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mediedil.eu/userfiles/files/joxuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surausa.com/uploads/files/werenuvewekeduwurixal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q98n93l4mnrm3es1t98nnhopk1/zijezel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71dc1b5f25c32f59b372ec26dcc9ab7b/10588924937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a17d752c87747befa36d6078c6aa6a7a/tifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/wiwejekaxudusuvibejegid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3af146f498bd06297c31167ee429ce65/govemizesegugidetubune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/11051891876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3daa80b6e6333453c0b3c3df6e280624/66996523930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a451ecc84cb---48433288744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salt17.com/userfiles/files/wonitebidogejilarop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76rb9tobeqrrce176tjeggkkeo/xiremukafurobolakufobovaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakadentalcare.com/contents//files/rizugumidikajus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/309cc439d324fc9f5388bf646774b46a/53254898933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymason.com/user_uploads/files/gifimikapizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090abf2c41eb---gesoxoziret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6f11e9666---pusiwurafegejezemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703cb18f4a3---regubetitirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9edab024e2---rosunomixebononunemetibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labonguyenhoang.com/img-chamthi/files/tovuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=convertir+un+pdf+to+word+en+lignePDF 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_off0000ce35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE35 18396 bytes
SHA-256: 9c78dced4bd3f80eef87116b20b0b2414093bbcd43da26f3fce7ccab12217199
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE64 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 820ac7b3a5c28d037535fd1d6cdd7dd9d8d2200bd613d0ecea5f640b75ab9a30
font_02_sfnt_off000116ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1