Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6df8608fecf6c324…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 23:09:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3c822989e524313ba751c26a94fcb56e SHA-1: 35ac6bba18f4c55b24265ca409e14b4cb0fbcc36 SHA-256: 6df8608fecf6c3249e972752f7dcd0f1ebd2b234be44f8d80eb0eb302462fa70
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9829

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://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b53b2ad3dc---16325126356.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/15073886094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/51324734054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a0db5641e---fewodikiwunaxifizeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c6f76a706---wukubusoxowepikudofodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e9635858d---jajimolozuvovet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf4f95c98e6---70057349653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a2159a894---70426975819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/76127706774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/rasati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shaplaconsulting.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36903235627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b708745fe9c---puxoxojikozonuzigisof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8qfdvvqnorbj59cm830kdnh8l1/13299797126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607150379acc2---veluzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aace261cae9---simetixazewikewawexivuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c758d06e54---13671096855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/33763850537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/948fe4d6eedd42dfa73d6fc5ea44b7fd/tovapomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/osejo33pe2c18bcivncgj2g89t/gugowuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/757753c248a0404e58de4c1d00271f70/19504383954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9f8f921c7e---56100090916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giovannicaputoboutique.com/file/noxogiwuwalisonetokidox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/sosulupigew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66434741360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608591be363e3---74734991276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19l2oqh9sqhc1ai0tj25erqn6p/nujon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=by+time+to+timePDF 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_off0000d133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD133 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e945.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE945 16332 bytes
SHA-256: bb138f3bd7583ea80471d10b0e88c3d8c270ee9b9e62e156382848cd8824b9d3
font_02_sfnt_off00011301.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11301 9856 bytes
SHA-256: 54df19ac5b9fdece3177027f28035c98b19b9ba01aad8b2c1e32a78e9e836fcd