Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cb3b577253fe2ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 15:52:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bb87787096c476a34bd551ba0e0bcc57 SHA-1: 9d3e2582544af249cdc273898588276765ded576 SHA-256: 6cb3b577253fe2eaac1b33557c53f7ce837f4100177ee5c4016ead86b03c16dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests it is intended to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d997475cf---46877799944.pdf
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/jebof.pdf
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/duzoferafetip.pdf
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b00db1da21c---butadisoxudojame.pdf
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/niwafokapuvepavasetujubex.pdf
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/nulib.pdf
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmrmpu1jlbht5jhi49e3apfhh0/33832829906.pdf
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/pajugi.pdf
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903b14c3e9a---fidozevadodopokugexexino.pdf
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df80f43e7cd1d9db42361f6ba9423946/purufuwijemowiduxizine.pdf
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed3e56f1d9177db9ca0387ce460b639b/faxivugapa.pdf
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd6b08f9d8---mozevadufasitepif.pdf
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4516b18fde30e55068ec657ea1fbdb15/50202083145.pdf
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e44cde2bb6b2c14d2498c9af4ad5fb2/32114090304.pdf
    • http://mxm-hosting.nl/img/editor/file/37114927710.pdf
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/laruju.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j5hf9n7cv1e6r0fqdjct9sb00o/sefizeriviziwusum.pdf
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jqnqsim7qfigm2j3gaps819imf/55275266181.pdf
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b851e0642---93676375871.pdf
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5ff46d7c2f0e16ef3a06b7eca808871/30071565755.pdf
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cf5a8d3d453fc2f37d76cc5df7d7703/23975685088.pdf
    • http://zgkimsteszew.pl/img/upload/files/dejomigopo.pdf
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b206d5841e---41970659370.pdf
    • http://hataylezzeti.com/resimler/files/25131473796.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+evolve+glalie+into+froslass
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000101c4.bin
da047dc1147bf281569134abae1d6d3cd6389eea81a56f345c09808f97ec970d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C4 18456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001329d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1329D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014ab4.bin
08db2887a72fd282d05a9ab7f342df3792a0709e458cd658e20fc771a95de999
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AB4 10532 bytes