Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cab2213a3b46519…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:59:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e635a12681e45b2f318237b6f2f14729 SHA-1: 921d4f9eb67a2c376af6ab38ba806d463f9ee207 SHA-256: 6cab2213a3b4651995e477000e23d9d4c0161b370353365328d72b0cdeaf2755
156 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, and heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm. Multiple URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or phish users. The PDF itself contains obfuscated data rather than readable content, reinforcing its role as a delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0ff45764a---52979024058.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6lt8b91q3ebn2s8e90rk8cspal/baxikedazidot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111ae30585da---taxuziramaxakokerijerurux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easttbirds88.com/clients/d/d7/d767393c090093bf18db16876c07b5c3/File/latadevove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofia-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/99322367671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92ed7b39a3---gofat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/zuguzitowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thsport.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bipetenewagoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/tapikokeludavarufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44370107660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021052911430030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/18764337889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/betm4i8kgnelurbm8p7mjnegc4/70433565929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangnamjsc.com/upload/files/42263388264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715c146f97e---88113906059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1625558287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///80902513811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalecchi.it/userfiles/files/90356120727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/joxixanoxuwakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mftelhas.com.br/adm/Editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30943644789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4e4b65802c---50878057509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/75128169624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/zubezekafaludusefatirap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/panepozekoxugutaxubiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarexperte.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/40390291823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=utility+patent+application+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_off0000ea85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA85 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 9163c0237239856bcb931af0f8d91553d58e092946cf1f2d39cf9e5e3bc30d25
font_01_sfnt_off00010265.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10265 17416 bytes
SHA-256: deaf5a6532e2e69a57a5377167d942cdda738f6edaaaa17a4c97873d7375178e
font_02_sfnt_off00012f9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1