Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ef91b5b231ead0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.9 KB Created: 2021-08-13 00:08:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 9179c7f0f8c5cef67ee03cc8ba8cf446 SHA-1: d1d7f2a7dc579378080a53d2311efaed6cb2f774 SHA-256: 6ef91b5b231ead0f2b411d9cc280142dac726afe01c1d783d6a2e7b3a15a365f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable domains, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple links on potentially compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f011dd24efe5573b5712a0928b0046fe/95769568630.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/361a305174ba198898146b7d6532d50e/69158079512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/sofepuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfl72r611cb5eoqrhgkm74lk7k/lakoluto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///nibev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/89843945703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd714f560eed62c973b086105baeb388/35026782400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb0d02a09545da7782e3f8add481056a/1420287653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c23baefce---38383352890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e8a3656a6---5587798473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c81b326025e05b0eb0b4782801812c08/76352555915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec8d7d4d9eaf0a3d88ea4588c13cbcf4/2838439859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/3318197404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f5103229a---xosugufixogikar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3c42c02db---xaparasulifilofigisep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/653fb0f2f0598012aa73db97f1989c87/56163606363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/tezisafirimizejavif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wronba.pl/uploads/wysiwyg/file/2179283399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f97330959---60399871967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c57c6c6d41a---2459250512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089954e7a8b0---95815621086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074369089ace---pubukerawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=more+linear+equations+worksheet+answers+mp3444PDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ba69860c2b38f06f0ee5cf8ad66ec03/5905629274.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_off00011b50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B50 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 20898307d374b4760cbfb75b427fbbb1340f57d766debc1a952e8025e46a41af
font_01_sfnt_off00013566.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13566 17936 bytes
SHA-256: 3530211e86fc725c82b438dbe98b6af29263699d4750a3a24bc62371a86f03c1
font_02_sfnt_off000164d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x164D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1