Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e6b745424bff311…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-06-08 19:31:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 71dc3afda7a500d842df25795293dcbb SHA-1: cd173e616219963d0ebfcf720ab37b9c26f86632 SHA-256: 6e6b745424bff311a506136fc5db173c6ada63d17066e7ef70f842c2f29f6ab0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs strongly suggest it is designed to redirect users to external, potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+sensitivity+for+3+finger+claw PDF link annotation
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/35042151143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf3e652ae97---zesinajafadonigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160af18578de7e---64400532662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/201241692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b9d37fb2bd680f91cf25dfa07450b3/kokamukejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/9054991479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/pexekazimosixajemolerud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g7tgibodbvh4a68jp599ab5760/likakodewemiwazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c02410fde4---nitesukemosaranujobepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qsnuq5h8g0akebanurifn3a74p/numefajotejediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba4c4cdc8e---88739455594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092aed483e96---lesupamuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3e353eb1c---15626944417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c019ce652b4f06b6009ff16a84c364f/48248692649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kv7phhj4fk1ucqldegcarc7vd2/perisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d98ca4d2e388d20a9f3fb8c21db84486/43081999075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/dilava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/58635386433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f591.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF591 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 25072f6757eb3ef1ace1cdcc1ca841bb1b4d2ec3b1cb71e8141f2a91ce052931
font_01_sfnt_off000107bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107BD 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 45fa00fcc69463bd45990140b76a58ef2ccc024247d2d4ffce38b01efea100e7
font_02_sfnt_off00012d16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D16 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361