Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6da0cd3c594a01aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:46:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6da2ae00d4049ae0f8e0f0c6eaaf069a SHA-1: 56313cd3658db191faa479b98d8117338fafa9f6 SHA-256: 6da0cd3c594a01aa6563352090993ff164cb9ef08fafed9e254f390185a683cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://pellevah.com/upload/files/49497611018.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kommunikator.nu/demo/userfiles/file///lamurewijigakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/95497567904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78isf0i7j0i837fo4lb0nnfk8i/duxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/42267128053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ht0hs6kc642tenbkcne8t458h7/20004429106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd420b8994b---wuxitatoxafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/sekixadasapamowurebobug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taispacedesign.com/upload/files/55769544931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802545f1781---ligososivuxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pristineleather.com/userfiles/file/riditujosifarikupimoxazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smallislandcurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75dea02cc47d6cd17efa8c885ce8ecad/30084523161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609845246409b---mibovozuxoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf94754c71fa8f8a3b27e97b3dba0c62/96212673793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a3e6805ed---pavere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/nufarupubuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/wefikujugaperariwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9nmsggqclfckeb48hd9dvu934/71516651761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shophouse.info/images/files/nosokofagalimov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/19121565704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa665afe5fae89054f8a35109b1f8ec3/pugenebebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48cca5d733385dd7be9fb3534c9258d2/44578663928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs75aa.org/clients/0/08/08eb77d093c5251d787cf05842b4a73c/File/fasavidikekagevenevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=foundation+and+types+of+foundationPDF 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_off0000e4c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C2 17640 bytes
SHA-256: fb1cfb04ffc37770717c523218930c1885aea901a9c6fdc23b88026d8885a85e
font_01_sfnt_off0001127a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1127A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A91 10536 bytes
SHA-256: ccbca5f3e0a18aba439e1ef7336f4c2b99bb4a76081ff54b34ac2c6ef3d2d1a9

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