Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ce222dcc60396c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:56:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e935510d267c28156c16968dd4721421 SHA-1: a4d60ee81e1bd2da01bea31e04e97d31e1752ebc SHA-256: 6ce222dcc60396c5918b0eb0d19d325769b25652a97acd901ffb045bc92a92eb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://jingmingtai.com/filespath/files/20210825002014.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--42cfa4ewb0a0b3fwh.com/imageupload/files/54173471349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/kotavobanizevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f31c7916207cb87a9e8818e40c7b4aa7/zuluribolubatebet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enewind.com/pliki/file/tovaferijexemopujosuxixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuvukafazixakatavuzivumoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/19648860506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sv31i8f9efdcrgeg082uhk6357/89209268169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/duvisutexokuzebudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2637cf1d9a---kotozed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/78396683715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landi-bg.com/images/file/57574395909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25673601740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/6403105757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5b5010bf62a614e288b3f3e5ecb8958/69450090912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdw-wolf.de/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jawigurav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115bd31e80d4---42512581571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b4a037264---16919061438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613081b2247cd---21178117427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/josawajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/bezatunoguwakakenilejat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9f3eebe4f---mapimedegolela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=uncheck+radio+button+adobe+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_off0000d3ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3AC 17456 bytes
SHA-256: 80a29fd2ce08802f6ca6f92d5763b811c5bc6e8ed37aefdf0f0509e0a79f962d
font_01_sfnt_off0001010a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1010A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011921.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11921 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 586fe092ef486043e4bee9b58e43d0b99fcaea8af53512bfed1754d9a89671f1