Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6eab792353f4e40c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.0 KB Created: 2021-08-03 10:22:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8acd88bb086cb3dbba24e9e257189209 SHA-1: d803ac2d6759fee44b3036c3cab9e0c099aeb243 SHA-256: 6eab792353f4e40cd918b9072e07a27d87d8e472edbedbb352acd50390d8e030
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing and malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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 https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9i65jpqdpv10j1asnrcmh1ufqu/milamu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210603131457_c0ub61.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d12d4756795d3151729d79fad8994cd/kiluwomewazasovimibuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc35f72964e---54496053753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/20389381557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/25670098726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ginarelufatomulekoditonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dba7481c83---towadegaxesezemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/dijuzuneliku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b056a9d9199---zuteduxavubimemokupan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b32acd0a4---nutedejowidemifiduruzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e23dd8996---89074903755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/14750993065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prinsart.ro/uploads/files/32561394627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/pujobegixunuvutiletukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1979.net/clients/65916/File/savokalojirumegimagun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/zedesesomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/76574976144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianspradlin.com/userfiles/file/80799327997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b332a78c1---zesolowuxejutapifet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac31edf21bc---namevotanugilafexapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqevfjf7jui5s3ub6foselj2st/zemazuvewijovutotikumobep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922106c54b6---siruderomusovuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ef08fa39e777d83c88d792ce5a39110/burekuzexidibokutajirexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/28070557124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=manual+de+instru%C3%A7%C3%B5es+lavadora+electrolux+12kgPDF 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_off00011d4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D4E 19052 bytes
SHA-256: 79cc2027c88f60677c3895901363501cc491a46b37b048d3047c31ceeb2782ad
font_01_sfnt_off00014c31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016448.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16448 11492 bytes
SHA-256: e96330cbc31be585452baca796aea15a792cddd03b28c30f0b0fe719de35a9d2