Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cb2586c137b6206…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.8 KB Created: 2021-08-07 02:59:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 65a61b1beca8c612ea64fd1e89b710a3 SHA-1: 25b9feb7a4ccb82e0319343ea2b2a8e147cdf455 SHA-256: 6cb2586c137b6206fc232b0e3f8721b0d762a9bae662bea8bfda02b7ad631722
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated content rather than user-readable text.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comic+the+walking+dead+pdf+espa%C3%B1ol+1 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844fb03f7c1---36334776281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c5f4d7987---wufomadigenitemalogowis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.buildingmalawi.com/images/uploaded/documents/wuzovutoxonenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108637141ca5---jijikidanumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d6392765e---wetedaxaduwosujiroxifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/53903328403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74e084e9e1---46730270173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21c7b39ad223d15417e4afae3d7aa45e/58057191584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/lumijim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/88424259646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3dcqgcal0nqhlk8i9idd4tnv2/vosumibeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cp-tournament.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/finuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/mopokupon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5cb2eb5c9c---86300606294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/41718203634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f5c51f589---numizakizoxurenejofonosil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ceec5ea4d6---68646180820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be8a63c764f---pavidodataforiboroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaunited.com/contents//files/94012231917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d93664fd82849dbebffbe5e9cfbace78/ratisusenofipaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a40017c1b03---xepej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d8a843dc2---68368728486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c39fc2cc9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zartmobilia.com/userfiles/file/20210609120651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee4d184801b---warideka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00016adb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16ADB 11436 bytes
SHA-256: 3cc4a7ed8f6635778b3f0f7b1a713c2368d00115a25b324fc37a9fcc2a084899
font_01_sfnt_off00018556.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18556 17372 bytes
SHA-256: 6de6a50948a810e8bc4eca9bf13e4d687551790c14263ff6c58c0ab7a5cfb591
font_02_sfnt_off0001b32f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B32F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1