Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6edf0025439afde0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:48:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 13af1d706d8e4c9f6ed72d9ff281c4d9 SHA-1: 5b04c4fb7771f70e951436e3c8672356a150ac31 SHA-256: 6edf0025439afde06201e6f26b6ff94d79926e148632a46c3b103e063afa3dd1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, directing users to compromised or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The document body is obfuscated and does not provide direct textual clues, but the overall structure and URL analysis point to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://1mosref.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xutalirexogarasedop.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d41e5c28672---66714172025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c30e0umckge8tfpt6eg2mrvm1/8234513336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ak7mk2jfa55q8tm540dsshmqv0/zatimegowobufenotekun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.net/files/files/37190328948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac72302406f---44833896546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0e1ff3509---45108157158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcd578a38105b4585e0920e3cbf28aa3/35943226024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dofinigaronaxevunavox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f818a1a39---nodera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d57e95deb---janalesosenikopajuketux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e5ce25acb---67402073178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766af43d01d---sibosakonixopanuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/rorewesigibifuberatuxula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab97e2c08e2---736109515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealand-pptc.com/userfiles/file/27315546023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termokingbt.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73996706293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c465c5de0faf20b5d7826700da2206e/fafogimuxerutozebetogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/libokuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieclangman.com/Images_upload/files/wemutavemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/43683400690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8aa9eece6d---wijinakajag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=matrices+and+determinants+solved+problems+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_off0000b110.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB110 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c927.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC927 10980 bytes
SHA-256: d055396ad7e22bd89122fee240c653d58453bc4bf3da2b0ecfdbb3311c984a36
font_02_sfnt_off0000e26d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE26D 14680 bytes
SHA-256: bf0268e35e82b185260ce4df12ab0ea6d6020436e7c5d1fc435b6a96374d4985