Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d97d080d42fe875…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 09:27:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0c591b82f235cf4c1da5b5c428572cf7 SHA-1: 8eb42ba372cbee63bc717326ea691ecd0f7a70b5 SHA-256: 6d97d080d42fe875267a8412da150fb625ccee2af6b5dd5bd55e9c68a75da666
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by both ML classification and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as a lure for phishing or to download further malicious content.

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://worldofpacifiers.com/editor_uploads/system/files/31967254199.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949d4cef4ef---nekatikonezulodekopuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43ce9a6d462a21da26be9125f927fdcb/21659632764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beedd317236---25914180255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/kibotali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c61f8f70213e66b330b0839ea6c8a23/93117406640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/vadatasunajoleteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/refanudoviresira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1d13651fe---gulokigamoxuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makinsushi.com/uploads/files/junigebanigasirepikogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/fefujewetabuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/49317361899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cravaluos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/timoninak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d29f2cbd7---fetevopigorinifageneva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bue7e28q67rukefj211k3sn5t2/63481006587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/xitoxukorubotubixuxedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6580b1cc2---30772696722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78c1b698a1f2fa99f6da3ab0c127d201/67835268385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c99351bc59---kajujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smit-electronic.hr/upload/datoteke/fegiwigetuxata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jjr7jlt8rri8v6v09lb6hbus8a/15188247120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/839234cdec3ea3a68fc6f62ebf7bbd0d/doporu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/tagodex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=philips+dect+215+manualPDF 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_off0000ff26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001173d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1173D 10964 bytes
SHA-256: e2cb77135acb31058e505d27eaf48c035f2b303f2f2acef64d64a92ca328c4e4
font_02_sfnt_off00013093.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13093 16628 bytes
SHA-256: 85a98615fd1821570b45c1dd992e8a983010bc538aafbccb2a4cfff2fd921a8b