Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6df8d38d281ac9e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:21:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 085101a623e458f0d576a87002d44e7d SHA-1: d31a4ca4d92f1d11d39f6f3c4b8b4e62c3b18331 SHA-256: 6df8d38d281ac9e4a77cd9223b8da2b7c876f28ec2f6191e76a9fc89c5c6f7ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or other potentially disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content to analyze.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://bacsiha.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dosavavoterejegel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://premiumdrinks.eu/userfiles/ferefapej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/vugitini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scantech3d.com/files/989892020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weiddy.com/uploads/files/202108161735257033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/fiferanafelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/todagifuxuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d55b68e9fd---litenudirapumazotulexaluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/19079173245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9ddtbi0euihqgdmhqd3slp7a6/54618784587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dildendilecevirievi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/somovenekubuwepave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fbc57837f---pupajefejorufapowelafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e699f97d4d8fe78cdb08052e611219a/rujidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl1971.com/clients/5/51/517263f0417f9379c67e6eba0e0bdfe8/File/68711691348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecc6d0af13---96084613754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/21660356092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/13182523579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/vijefakojoxetojenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jobsandhi.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/37266297602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francescasciortino.it/userfiles/files/43680547144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaiminsales.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daxosazalorasuganubabosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354d40a3232---puzibafikawukusifex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jobtiara.com/files/files/xovaxonegarozeravix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c37108cd8---vaged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+computer+applications+and+concepts+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_off0000d54b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD54B 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 8a1bab806024000e7c92d02ee5aba3596bc7599d7a329b7554551044009d8255
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE3E 17376 bytes
SHA-256: f0739da014d5b567c1d096329ee441341cc74a3324fee88ce233cbe075697ee4
font_02_sfnt_off00011ad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1