Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dd2512516f99cf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:32:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fcf8192638244bfa7d2c545cf4c2cab6 SHA-1: 2fd31df1e37857a83e3fb4fa2a58e73b099859ec SHA-256: 6dd2512516f99cf031838bb02416c4e7910dcb75798b0d5ecb057404cf757e9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute phishing content or further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bncc+ensino+fundamental+em+pdf
    • http://architettogherardi.eu/userfiles/files/tunuvonowezevidid.pdf
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af9fa499e4562cb1c6ced23c81eb767e/kagirutigerobuz.pdf
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5722e7a36dcac20d7680e8245098265/zaxagimesuzunupej.pdf
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ace89bb8e917bc764a1d4c7d386422e/dulezuwabegukojopo.pdf
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b536298cd---fenukibugovixepebuzoloso.pdf
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a245fe8b00d---talerini.pdf
    • http://gabident.pl/local/userfiles/file/14351731371.pdf
    • http://vivaldiskibus.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210721_67B620C0A916A33C.pdf
    • http://cssh.es/img/file/merazifobelitivojo.pdf
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/vujinosesudoduzimedal.pdf
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082037c9b705---pufuliwamakabonidubefe.pdf
    • http://millionsdiscount.com/mo_images/files/18077235647.pdf
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/85017079961.pdf
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87c47a0d12---vurevajowaputosuruzava.pdf
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2979fd04d1fe51db771035990868a0b8/batewe.pdf
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/214e30529dd4e26a84be631ca08129b7/dukukesag.pdf
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/fakotodakikov.pdf
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5d71588428c39a4a029a829bf943220/4629081105.pdf
    • https://oncetrabzon.com/resimler/files/98430211471.pdf
    • http://nexxstep.nl/userfiles/file/2368084822.pdf
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e8afc06c158c894107efd0506cfd3fe/31758657686.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010f60.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F60 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012777.bin
f8446062858473250a1032e4d45ae9514c056bbc4b2c05f2706c207192c8e436
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12777 10832 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014080.bin
ec99958f5e633b7afec6d805c2cdadf30d7ecd6decfd67e4cfa0e301121cb195
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14080 18708 bytes