Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f018db87b28f34e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:15:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3a2a4ad3ccccc6ad41df20b14497e0c7 SHA-1: 96cbf90b630df51acea455b95615d2bf3f2dda2f SHA-256: 6f018db87b28f34e855e043af8e4a86173d65920649adfcf4c218bddddef5260
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised sites, points to a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=badley+practical+seismic+interpretation+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070896702458---jemulosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/xukipepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rsvltgtlfobf2clfakct49sp66/nurevupuligajalefozoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610980b6f3012---jirizavigujepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4afb98306f---60640243822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ae754fa44a2cffeafeaf57351ef3a7/mojinezesibebuloju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad74b145bca---76325643481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuaabshanquoc.vn/files/nefapawipovabatamumeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenderup.ro/mm/file/46486829531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/94554988057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bde0822b425---17810910429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/844c5e858845c40723cd8e49dab74e0f/nolipuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekt-dom.pl/designhome/admin/userfiles/file/basuzizakuboxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viajesalaos.com/webroot/img/files/mudepupimoriruga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22u8tigagv4cf3clcttuh7pb36/75126856342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfeerweter.nl/userfiles/files/22544178010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/bepusiwelowiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rafaela-motores.com/userfiles/file/mapelufibaguxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d7f8c0065---witivavus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8c03d5fdef---37239485192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16098400d5f9fd---73574055027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9952abbe4f948d3c1c085c724eb7a27a/71789834145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9ac57fc80---domibibufinorexogiforiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/44039437783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e27e2511d07c7e1899866cebf86b1680/bakepaxidonumodotas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8dc807c42b---88272598563.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_off0000d754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD754 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 9f122e851855dd617e195146674bad9f732175f82db3248559e5cdddc473cec0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B4 17528 bytes
SHA-256: e0645997842b15a462c82b3e757d22d499de5e4e7e41934d1887a4cc2cc2c240
font_02_sfnt_off00011de7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1