Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d5ee54336840577…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:18:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 004f5204cf424d88916998148beda42c SHA-1: f547e90159934e30e47f82d98703df771d0f6d93 SHA-256: 6d5ee543368405777ab00afaf3e3459e6888ff416dae8254d43a5e7c99ba47e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it's a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and potentially malicious URLs. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bonnie+and+clyde+story+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6e17df1dcd---22398685477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shosholoza.de/file/63430237101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c88a39079b---63193294575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce3e0e5b140---31865017867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2af7675390e064f10a1696aee1901521/xonotibofogatifedativomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/017dd059f5d656bbe8266b32cfdf93af/84377123657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6051d22da42207dec6f82af6926f0c94/zubajese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/22436894014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivankotov.ru/img/lib/file/73587871150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushichoice.com/uploads/files/84892410315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/ximuxonix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotoko.com/cmsv2/upload/files/62281386672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/fusebomabikerewiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adfd3809582---ridizuwuvutelezedani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleni.cz/userfiles/file/sopusoxebuvaledasedidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9htdvehh8kaqgbm5g9g4i9jt7/xasinazet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160ae5089d2037---sovivedulaxomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d211cec55096c24b555470a479c4f399/bupoxipizedamibebev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainbowfurnitures.com/files/files/70287393713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namratalakhotia.com/userfiles/files/sowari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/lofenozoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/kotabifigazog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a676a590da5---sijidowamizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/46706435717.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_off0000fa79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA79 19348 bytes
SHA-256: 56dca69e3b96198b9816721bf92583682077bdcd175d5be9254073d3855eeb10
font_01_sfnt_off00012ca5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CA5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000144bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144BC 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 896f1d8045be16583ecb81fa208f786c6b9db15195958f37305beea650c61a2d