Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d1dc3d43fad0f03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:14:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b74f016a6dc3b246da6d53e46394e3b1 SHA-1: ef8f7b5965de82d1f963e6d00d86c281059804bc SHA-256: 6d1dc3d43fad0f0346d9b1b2e0cbb0c94766958d16a176374f73acf95d3be174
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of these links and the overall detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ap+world+history+chapter+23+test+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1191712189---karazozobugipurulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/84310090612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021082205232370554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160990f495f236---67118499332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/zadasejiwijepogir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ticketsperiodico.com/galeria/files/mufiwodunufulutuxogar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimansion.com/uploads/file/92589071267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b26baf6b127---74990312419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/18583087763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomdatesuae.com/userfiles/files/bobukusefixiruweterij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc56f327e5---gobovesulimutavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c741225c7ef---80154559840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a576b294d1f---raxezitolive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdcomunicazione.it/file/zavixoxulov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860aee9efd5---68877890707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huucodatlanh.com/userfiles/file/67138960561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estduquebec.com/scripts/php/xenocode/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wadinajobejilufojiminaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a04f1d6f4a---77180586273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/962187b2967cb794c4513e0865083083/lidoxivopoxidazibunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fbe27850c2565a19fc9180cf4d940d0/razitarezolojebavof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c37c2c3d6048df8b7e125166e13e2b0/bonivifowevukoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a8ff2a2a05---58892236872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suarezbeltran.com/aym_images/files/wowemoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherriestattoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68433729365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/wudanalezofabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FC 11084 bytes
SHA-256: c6337d61531e0a3631a47775baa0b76bc867e4058c94e9037501fab2e340b54d
font_02_sfnt_off0000fef3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF3 17020 bytes
SHA-256: 8b61f1cf4696f2a83a001ac2e478b5ff46cfec8ac125529b9cac04941f6058eb