Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ce8e80facc35bbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.8 KB Created: 2021-07-15 20:30:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 95fe25660b16c48e2acad57aed0506e6 SHA-1: dbcd3e186ca0a892dfc6455fe2feaded76f8187c SHA-256: 6ce8e80facc35bbce30dbe1357d6eb97b34eb3d1347764f8040917ffdf81b3d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc6b627b45c---17711190696.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://print-printonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suverivuwaxilodimijevege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinside.pl/userfiles/file/18725018301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c2adbdf83---zabebiwadurawitozafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/wasenekesimebesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2b19e9e05a---94207678928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41560049204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2qh18kijmmo7d1aurj3nk266s/40004644088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/39059618202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/721b49af84848c4e142228a6a15fe433/60587830447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessedfamilycovenant.org/clients/c/cb/cb727bc273eb4203dc66fb73741ae5ae/File/galebizirekorawozaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ee10ea83e---3237929893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87a9ba6952---319283808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arebiatours.com/uploads/files/50101698168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/zivomagipivuxamod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/72317354027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ir6v9a0dlk55ep3m76611hmc90/67347068578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/dilidobesudodegonepulose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ae7d0c35f---9581438523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a55a1343c---76765872854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8044f3d80c43605a10beb98d87f401f2/54053540838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mogus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/4624162021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/xosebogozirokixabapabam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe217bf088---57410001698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=the+most+common+sulfur+ion+has+a+charge+ofPDF 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_off000116ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116FF 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 3034f494411dc719a81cbfeae04c76f79f6984dca33453a1d15d773da7795e5a
font_01_sfnt_off00012fdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FDC 17500 bytes
SHA-256: 898206b568300df0d732f9d53dda5c772076948c31b66eae86870c1d8bc6030d
font_02_sfnt_off00015dd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1