Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dfb8b8d1c674791…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-06-18 23:15:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e627bc8fe1d8b1c469776f098158e48d SHA-1: 3825d7c870cbdb536d6b07dc16894e66b5d7e007 SHA-256: 6dfb8b8d1c674791ce934435fbd95e36c6aa6098fa1e00ae4fa9bc783c9145cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing pages. The presence of multiple links on compromised CMS upload storage suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c42d2ecafc2---zevudagopi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23987123856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/71574114412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/binawuvod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38c72668eeedad12e37bb1301ff33578/18931379625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65fd2ea89f---61164242455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faulkfamilync.com/clients/c/cc/ccb94402b1eed20a0583117be0c0b506/File/47425683235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5epmr0uuv41hhujm7eu6rsgq5/rolopewowozemumebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/50306836198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803b13c6388---38348888839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40209c9460a6d3d21022cbc09a3c884c/tovuzegalexikixisunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/kebexaruvowozefuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63b37c2e86---durolizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/65893879656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839517ae92a---xufetabuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=famous+greek+god+namesPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF6 5132 bytes
SHA-256: ae6c6dfebaf49b680865d81ceb51e62f370d37d64b5093ceac40760cc58b301d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f159.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF159 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 944ed050ec1ef0ca366a8657039580e665f879673012383fac41adb26018d2fc