Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cf58adfb9550f06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 21:55:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 69fe89a87f59dd27516ba4457dd277e4 SHA-1: c01b70f54d530f15dfd2682c49fadfdd7510c266 SHA-256: 6cf58adfb9550f06431042a9dc3df3ed8bd47f6922b95b3d32e3e99f862a386d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, with numerous distinct hosts and URLs. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF format can embed JavaScript, and the nature of the links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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 http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820893dc2a8---65750253690.pdf
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g1trjjvilk3jcddk9964i7rt18/vunedap.pdf
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/8631903822.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f9c661da2---gutovapuzekowibamubafat.pdf
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1282d30146---kamebarijawulume.pdf
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607747e434bad---tonekajimijoninokisol.pdf
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd95a55153---fowisig.pdf
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8cbd852cb---28075212333.pdf
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/9466649265.pdf
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13169915612.pdf
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles//files/96913122852.pdf
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/safonirekitekaregugujuw.pdf
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2002ce78deeaf1edd1fc425307a51ec/feluzunizajativit.pdf
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5828195680---34738969787.pdf
    • https://youkuvpn.com/upload/files/disuneguxibowe.pdf
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf9e0c0562---61593685719.pdf
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eae4159d0f---52493276512.pdf
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb5b58883fb55e96c5385f89bdcc7ceb/83986471001.pdf
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a0c1c0472---xaradarepidumotebugib.pdf
    • https://portugaliaimagyarok.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63688489920.pdf
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c44e03a4b7af2b0fdc49fde0aa2473a0/94866989371.pdf
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1cd7050d9c---vususetekofo.pdf
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pouh6c8244ov4t4cg2ciph3r86/26360036016.pdf
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6f376d05e74cbc1f95f1158c052f7eb/3193381800.pdf
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de3f5adb0fd427676f7ae3ad6a6977b9/9658432900.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=building+dna+gizmo+answers
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1c8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C8 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000109df.bin
5f6179d190970090bbf9ddee04d424b7f87d76e5fdc7a115f43b4417313badc5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109DF 10792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001228c.bin
e4c930b016a2a6d656d08513964d38d88530f0f1756c28e8f93c523238fa2b03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1228C 16296 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001387f.bin
2bae2f05ff441b6ceed38248688a09a8b6d365d8401192d7c2f2dc84d6284b51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1387F 16744 bytes