Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ce3cfc676cd96ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:33:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e626a2ca56b3bd1b6a1d38c5b2ee0027 SHA-1: 86b91a1d17369cf101057c2e8570f67b46d78d00 SHA-256: 6ce3cfc676cd96ba72c4ac56ba7e250c2ba7654797e603f9c7dd58e7d299752b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or lead users to phishing sites. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on disposable or compromised hosting reinforces the malicious nature of this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b2s95vsrf45fnhdufi48s1bq1/goxumejolekerivafixuzuxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c64529466d8---xukunifegako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lachina.cn/upload/file/71200649380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tfnit9nso69nqn4opg2c8b3t22/27617864984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canevastoilestjean.com/upload/editor/file/gebupemurabitekimaworoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a609b57b60c---47148373509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee08b5ed7ff---14883829905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb32eaf096c0c7f832f1f65c57854cd7/waxutavamimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c61e0fd087a---87401887836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e1f832176deaa48b375079e586caad3/padezodiwewitakuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/roxoralo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23a5193718603b64d10050461f4a93ba/23612420613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanpetrochemicals.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/wejaxidoselovama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b2a6a7cd9---bataki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaithompson.com/userfiles/file/44105269463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phamtrangia.site/upload/files/wetewaxabitowudowat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulsamemorialclass1969.com/clients/8/8b/8b8b36ecbaf17f244e47af75a29dfbe2/File/sedogofajenodubixaror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9f650231f0fbc091d5897bed831abc6/xekegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f495412641---7468708697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1r2mpi3gqimh7m87ju26otgh1o/3360801959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f11a690c84---bajaguviboralitanusukil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cf55486ce08a082a6553845afbeb7da/poketijeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fejqutcpgih1mug2uo5de7sgb7/76738142520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c068886235b---86602220473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=first+grade+math+word+problems+worksheets+freePDF 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_off00012dd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000145ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145EA 19116 bytes
SHA-256: 2834da2398c4991267959599c7f24cdd5b5613cd9f0aab30bc48b42b6b9faaea
font_02_sfnt_off000177f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x177F1 11136 bytes
SHA-256: bfb4af040122b63f4bd675e885d8ca32ae0199bea252f791fc72ea272ca31194