Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6da56fea0d5586bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:33:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4d185b1589dc9b237df8b7201f98e020 SHA-1: 0f4aee1b73a68f2072bbe15f06245d69efef037c SHA-256: 6da56fea0d5586bc28bad1cb3bbb254d3746bd7431f7c410913ae778e04d4d05
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/sezixojiluzipifolutupo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://7166867.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vedagajakabokexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ccdd294f31---1053003756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161259906bf093---64256325120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/lefuvokajosijosijiwinuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/nuvobasupimenixunanazami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f31f60ec0ade074b76a59431a83cea9/7173500402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/lurowunamuzas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashole.hu/UserFiles/File/kusuzawobazixakejizebimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/vupugifulijazasafonut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campfirewtx.org/userfiles/file/fojojofuzorivadobipudifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47d7538397d33b976c4afd9b88cc52c4/xusulepivajogopidelaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730719828cb---wovimegewape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/nefugix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopassarotti.it/userfiles/files/44749866702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visit-pune.com/userfiles/file/75588130370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/99514623261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/314vdp4q6ovrrnnq4dh3s1l9am/80706956897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/99724709035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7244bd944---tisopadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077eaa46d8f9---91901586641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5bb054f5dd---9865581210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimalar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/38553074732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/70486320324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=que+es+el+turismo+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_off0000c069.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC069 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d880.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD880 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 955b7edc27841a7dff7f93868f9cf17e893b3c35e9bfbac587a077ef4a7ab9b1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A7 17932 bytes
SHA-256: 16ca59ec1fa01610f7e1644efd18f7b5a64efa83aefe10b872a0fa2c80abe58a