Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d2e484a8badbdb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-07-06 14:25:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e2577f8a3fba5d12ded9ea93f86a17a9 SHA-1: c4089c83980fea583488519248f9b394ff54df4b SHA-256: 6d2e484a8badbdb1d729c113ffc922eaff926a02afc93fb2a1e2e0a0e7a4b8d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, a common technique for hosting malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing or malware distribution lure, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://whkmradio.com/userfiles/file/moxet.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e425beea8---20131242639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4066366c9---58424032370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/35528676317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ab6c0c8d244fea8704290f76288a342/xisedexevagexebam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851040d3e92---zegomeriwasupoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab868b42546---97803591517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8621dcc815---wijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b755ceb9ae1---zawul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/59235143226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymenhome-etsinta.net/tiedostot/files/leguvaderafaxedifimawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210528232633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b9f60c5af---befaxuloko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-brno.com/files/49844913957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816caf4bec9---57065073667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607517c413e97---87413042797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9764a739ba---9151772355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9932eb65f9d1a18fa563a0be3716bf0/wadalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/6888121546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5550692d1---37257390437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/31441899059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608066d274395---kokalowugelabizoroxevuvid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90f807d29e5aed5d34b9de8bf2f6680e/70294210022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9657483f97a649902107e9a26e73758/56529300207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021620817367326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=largest+mastiff+in+the+worldPDF 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_off0000f9d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D7 17444 bytes
SHA-256: ab1fd27fd9b75f9ade9e5d1d4d0424caa86019e48e7c6bb0c0d132f983a0eaad
font_01_sfnt_off00012748.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12748 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013f5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F5F 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 48b7cb185cbeaa6f3e6db15474efa2bd635a19a2742a963cda5acbf384a405af