Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d0f2be9364d1793…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:51:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 76299b285f5611fd5c123811dbee3e1b SHA-1: 29f3ec6da6f66fb766cc869b665847024eb5769e SHA-256: 6d0f2be9364d17936e37d70b493fc0b631b4244c46c652d6d2d8d97da152f92b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to manipulate search engine results or lead users to phishing sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/xapaxuterowig.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7g1ti8t31ra8ria0i9f2p81ip6/60197853351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c630764b5d2---75689393050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c9adec5a7---nuziluxedesafiguwujufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpokebar.com/uploads/files/73758443909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31d6ea11946f5cda4f140d93a869a2a9/59581723449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tekkoo.net/images/library/File/9172806556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96fab230fb44ce01009d6a419e20d429/zitotokinozivusuzolapudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bb345c6c94cf7dda40eda672503d023/93407300843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc4ee61698---72917243968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab5ffb67ef---rabufesikani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.horakgolf.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19470796248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ef87a76c86985bf84874870f7b0017b/53843130150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/mufuvux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b382a3a1c6---serezevimamadugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/28402645561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4493db04b4---koxudilataraxujuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locktactyuma.com/userfiles/file/xarovazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brightwayconsultancyservices.com/userfiles/file/sefupezapexulinewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/lolatulokonoside.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f47036c5c4---dinalebatabivakulijup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahnawazonline.com/uploads/files/nowerafuwelazamusulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenanhduong.vn/Upload/files/8234188353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=house+plan+in+autocad+2dPDF 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_off0000dcac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCAC 20060 bytes
SHA-256: 4d26b96a38941853cadd37b14e040b023356582eb0378580d90edd62a517aaed
font_01_sfnt_off00010f8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127A3 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 0fdcf98837710aa979154f80944177d1356d466329ff74a7093da332bd88e32e