Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ca27753f41b5e23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-07-15 12:54:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9f8d0ee7a1fdd792e8d70a35d44ab7e0 SHA-1: af02178a02608b178ad727fe09f63deee4534553 SHA-256: 6ca27753f41b5e23d72c0a08f879dc91291a6ec50562fcdf9f9c6c1128a38c8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content-based clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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 https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d296a295b0220886c1efcd0cb219e156/vedaruxuxi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ahoba85.com/clients/2/26/26d353b61ac95a99d7df5001a3d58300/File/34789581291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9070545e24---71434456412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/kagezejegaboli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6h6qtl5u5obhd4kjhdqvi3kgii/72094487929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2af376bd3d8205b2afccb608b5f44148/kewudejojibumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/90580894656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-lamps-rali.eu/files/file/26170868260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f77eb0e48f7687e43e4243ccf4f0d72/wagufugomunatewerurikimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cestovni-postylka.eu/userfiles/file/lelenexokeben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/49569211653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/av9of12to9a4oqa8ov2s3nqdbb/30493553631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1pp1smttjv4i9vm136p0nh0bi/davesudofituzuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c42a5f4c1---nobiwukotataluxexire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pottoka.info/files/galeria/files/70487027838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2e4de12c51b2f09a96084f4ce0fd4e2/1289362286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musikpark-live.de/userfiles/file/74925786280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjpf37535pvj06jklpkakufqei/60741057822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/56402193402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/lotusapotam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelstore.ru/upload/files/75757119394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimayphat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52334430018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6v79kesdu34j3vb9rg55kcjpo/dozabujokukebavilipix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096981c41e5e---juziwaxotawud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hcc19fjlihd5lajub855tusb3g/tufufajidajewafulagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=game+of+life+empire+instructions+pdfPDF 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_off000105f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F7 10920 bytes
SHA-256: d3900b6ae9774bdbd1a5b2546b3240250a7d325a908aaf0ee743d32d05e9fa69
font_01_sfnt_off00011f3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001374e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1374E 17504 bytes
SHA-256: f201c34d8ad0dc007b17c131e2bb9bf191b1fbf077abeda1d5842a9383227832