Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cb2b68c3082342e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-08-01 10:49:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: aa4598afc9fd10b3810daf22b3b6b8ae SHA-1: f1a608d67bd247f9a783f2356417326b8de4297d SHA-256: 6cb2b68c3082342e2befb2903a6a250027d822333cd23372b9d6861e80eda7c8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for distributing phishing lures or malware. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085060439fc8---41747166546.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607584abe8ed5---83262310846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eoabfa4cbvm29bh5ueb5qq739m/55261833359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/76337459569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4daa8a25b4---46120174646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pq1ignknivasg5bcmaup25lhj0/31933953699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/94867101226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924a2920d7d---zifokoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b2a17ab93---wavubewowerejexuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/wofase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0427d16da---nekumoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/gisogopakulubebuxore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entiambalaj.com/upload/file/vazuwokudixozekamibumop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wajl.net/img/file/2021620211124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f5d4cf793c135ee0c4e6ec25014fcfd/35809903685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/89047132106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/vuriwijare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simpelms.nl/userfiles//files/pabiwekuxewelitokamunila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af35d697922671ee7747dd9c53b0e6dd/27674489078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/guvedewiluxobaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3369b1d508---59201644779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4133e4bc0e88005fccc58645d8b358da/falarabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuantruongtech.com/images/ckeditor/files/manujani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/1976654835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=tmnt+2007+game+pcPDF 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_off0000f7f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011009.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11009 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 00ce9ae10e75365decb8245ca5f95b1988253b0702b2ed06015a2281f54ad09f
font_02_sfnt_off000127d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127D1 17048 bytes
SHA-256: dfb63132ac421b11839f5242ca275e36ea81cabc16984852818d00a1c0d7aa57