Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ee371698755f5e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:11:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a0debebfd8255aa23a242af55cc5f1ba SHA-1: 532b8b238b7d023d6f20af60f59091f024d1006d SHA-256: 6ee371698755f5e341f118cb3d66baff6d691236d65f75cd9f552ec792b436f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous suspicious URLs indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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 http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ecde263860---11725647033.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6cd1f3110f---nifepalokiluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willbramephotography.com/20306510093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/58152584572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pickup-ws.com/userfiles/files/41446058226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d373c228d2e0acf8a05667d3c08a22a/26562220463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30d0457b6fa4b6c9b827c73d52d4a4ae/93880830841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/434e49f16885da07027d2e93024b8363/57086185292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santamariamikado.com/uploads/files/26024721803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteservices.com/FCKeditor/userimages/file/30631419597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95d75553712558e678d7ad67f450e1a2/63395343809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springgalleryng.com/Images_upload/files/zamejilituxozefekagemujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c2c095f37---duforebuwenuxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102e60a58736---pedapodavuvivike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/wegemevunuvodonibid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/60713206068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2362c82ec---xidavawezugegimoromi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emanuelmlevin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rafimonoxilet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c217728637---90222121096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c0a0a4985aa14a9804e036f576d45bb/wujuzidoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omnistopbollards.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuximelunovixotajitij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riph.pl/userfiles/file/xatupabilomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamarchesainterita.be/lamarchesainterita/imgdb/news/files/86172987591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/tijidowanasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=life+cycle+of+plasmodium+parasite+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_off0001271c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1271C 18008 bytes
SHA-256: 0e527615bc7e88cff1bbf7f60018102ff14db9b95d6bb3777232786e86d0f7a7
font_01_sfnt_off000155a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155A7 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 019025ba4135f0ef5c07b89f81fe45b80abf299b3ee62a91407bb1b55f0ad0ae
font_02_sfnt_off00016ec6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16EC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1