Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6edb41b98b4dcc03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-31 00:46:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5c0d17e899289754346d2ff943db9c4f SHA-1: 52ed80d1ebe6e4d1bca62c45bedaacce4546009d SHA-256: 6edb41b98b4dcc03d2d763a99d156daa5d52417ba2cedd1762adf5c3cb68e9b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing page or malware download. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+calculate+the+volume+of+a+3d+trapezoid PDF link annotation
    • http://premsaktidal.in/userfiles/file/majubexilevajokukun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/39795785858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///sisij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9qn2lh1vv1jkoni94hf3rlqtk6/6928831785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/wugawovopetexutapaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/nikepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/fetijuwima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/so9nhqfvicg2h6uqhi1o34lqd7/21374507402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/4868838508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/250a0c37a3297e33f087e509cf4254de/52380603548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10922077728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80da2e00ec265188a008ec6dde24a81d/1682301437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacionecla.org/resources/original/file/xoziloja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609444515d34c---kapumevopaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729b69896fd---pasojose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegroverestaurantnj.com/userfiles/files/91731980455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f31ed1c0bc456595abedd460dddd7e7c/49615808369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdcomunicazione.it/file/masapeliwirozonizimavip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105290708198395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c814jqh487c1790295n76bjm02/pajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gg44boohlcshj3k12r955ecop5/26601608934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39b039b9bf37f3c00df3bd3adeed690a/veritirukilaraguj.pdfIn 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://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_off0000f0a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A2 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 2e13d1a8bbd8c0587309ce30913ba0e6aefac6edfc1c5a36bb9c947ee1faca7b
font_01_sfnt_off00010a8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A0 17580 bytes
SHA-256: 2c991d89b4862962629e6cf93b0cdb9d471b5a9d1add7aebd6d38218060a0181