Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d476b438f130aa7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 01:27:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a77cbfb763aae16651f7f64eef6504f4 SHA-1: 96957d065c92e76588b36eca80c1b879e12bc387 SHA-256: 6d476b438f130aa7f12c283ce553272574f12ff1d3262ec2b87eba163572633b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many of which are unknown or point to potentially compromised domains, reinforces the phishing and malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b5b94fd6a---31474820542.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fb06bf84aafdc93bdc769cf7dfac110/bokorizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf8b9a074e---3525896572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/tisizumodakawivonisuzaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0358e654dfcd07799083934030548798/zejupikonapetuxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aordonez.com/images/contenidos/files/lopazipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archidaldegan.eu/userfiles/files/86026772612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmtctr932vod06t032s0djfl22/nunufajonoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/sovopevesok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elemonbg.com/Files/File/vexunutuwutomexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bc8335627---12443818798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmresearch.org/userfiles/files/zefonusoforakuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/86590969172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/19536565213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/javusamurajivamafagutezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/22240480495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e51752dd9---33684882849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexprikson.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/44366826173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6dc0b2b928---vilaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/5368914390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6145bc84c---nonoboxesolozow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee1796a3615---57111706700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridagreatescape.com/media/file/buziwarabuzonimuriwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poulinstrapscan.com/userfiles/file/jozilimutuwupulete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210807_184826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d624699565be4a15ab322657103d64e8/begivokaxalapog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=tantra+mantra+books+in+bengali+pdfPDF 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_off0000b3a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3A8 11036 bytes
SHA-256: a353a69511028ae5ae2b651e7645c2027733283b279a77a0c9fb2001e837f2e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e503.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE503 15796 bytes
SHA-256: 5603f782108f17cd1fe1bb6371c5551e69d41baa8978974c17ba15290fc91dae