Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cd96085779b2941…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:13:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 821260f5a7600ed28ca6e8a8eb54c618 SHA-1: 039bca75605759792b09d5af235ac23b7d43edd6 SHA-256: 6cd96085779b294123ec3fa347b2c86c18c95db80ae9565032e09d4b76d1f2fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=duden+grammatik+der+deutschen+gegenwartssprache+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ryokanclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210716_22A4EF108FDC49C0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafemsoffice.com/userfiles/files/48412139077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasihpaham.com/contents//files/84921451417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/61979008183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/garipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/502cdfcd121b212c2eed23ade98b2a83/liletorag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://privatecambodiatour.com/userfiles/file/30415053249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents//files/92683392114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wearebryants.com/clients/3/3b/3bb22ab34fb8fe691aabc4d0498f9caa/File/60234592152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvanluatdanang.com/upload/ck/files/63664943078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webelievedin1984.com/clients/6/67/676624d6593aa512bfa6e10e765af00e/File/75252737462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5eb15d701---72234364175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5snvp4lu01o32rufg0v0pm03fb/baduvuxinerilunudofuwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06abef32fdfc8d194d500cf7944cabcb/pesufizojokaxalajije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circuitoinsulargc.com/documentos/file/85512028723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56bfb539ee8b0280bc35bac2b942ce28/warozufom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6b83cefd7---7482509451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/87251364785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/95474732732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///gefiwefifululivutuzun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realestatemiami.com/userfiles/files/koteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myvideoclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/dezijujoridegezos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9q93p8ihof62jtcamqve309im2/lojabewizemulatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujeresenmovimientoplus.com/userfiles/file/powijasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/nopedefoxisawovakirefib.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_off0000e942.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE942 11180 bytes
SHA-256: a73468c1507c54a6d646386eeb88ce788755441471c361771d578c73e8658f2a
font_01_sfnt_off0001031f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1031F 20784 bytes
SHA-256: 830d9e0188016fc8af7acadcbedd84d4b26cef38054a98a0ca74b6b61300b619
font_02_sfnt_off00013840.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13840 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1