Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d52f46690b9f3bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:08:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: ac4322c2638cc07c309d001fa4ffffba SHA-1: 13cc21bbdd4aa20891e40ce873a7e42f78cc0ea1 SHA-256: 6d52f46690b9f3bc592dc20e324842c42fd7fc0b2225d2cb288426074e0fe028
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The file's structure as a link farm on potentially compromised infrastructure supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/545a9894f7cc1c70f7d5fa161add8685/13846037079.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fe20b9cfb0a5abfed41c0768053621f/widutidivubawopeloga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/61411450809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075aab04d3c4---miterojimipuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkoksolarpower.com/syner_upload/images/files/95392572645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chothuexeninhbinh.net/data/dulieu/files/58258719824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/lunawigukale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l41jct8afna9qpmarecogl32ks/maredafowuduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ffbfa394d0eb1efa09be86494ffc67a/giputejimezazokimivado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tr3ir2chal7fq1i2b0af9v1pba/53433307073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce1b50b6f01---sabesew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/kopomitababovitopere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eyela.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/79533490868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/89930596351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zd-zeta.com/uploads/files/202108141852177516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608103d55a212---43005322439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkouty.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bipopozazezujurodapimunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/22172863925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e17867af0b---xewimisezamozuloxipisojuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/bemifovimulefobobilebepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/14158852765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad04af18903---18258000166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/toturulamadudowukomij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/29110357714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=time+connective+worksheets+ks2PDF 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_off0000b918.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB918 16476 bytes
SHA-256: ae77c6dcb7fdb0579d44cb0b503e26107a4e3bafb0a1bad2579a656a76358be9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e399.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE399 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 46b2fd3943b538d619b9bf009b5497a2acf39dc2182376d5cad37b8a3a725217
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1