Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f13be0bff52dba0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:27:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0ee6de466c2a1f7f9743adc64ddec691 SHA-1: 55b2673164e9a0fba931779e91193321274f22cd SHA-256: 6f13be0bff52dba05d2b4f53530e39cbb2cc79c0ec12782aa0b66ff0eaa3b512
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of external URLs suggest potential for JavaScript execution or redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wernher+von+braun+the+mars+project+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/minoberudojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610300ef0bf2a---kizepenifugabijis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anup.bo/images/files/pizixomanafowemivojidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/314ddfb25b609f2c68d4c033a9bfaa44/todusodigojig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iehyun.com/editorupload/file/tozuvagexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5d63f56qbbfcmkhcg89dn6t06/87001719651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oddluzanie.net/userfiles/file/zemisukituxilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-bouquet.be/userfiles/files/43459437484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/127b68b9437af37bc5395f10db9b61b4/rozedazukiguki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b81308712---vekixededosodifanuloji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relocationservicesgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c98e07fcbf---gufomikuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e1fa310c7---natixaxafovodipubijav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/tebejajatimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8925e332155efef219291c302995531c/39578199587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9716d08bfb---fiwofobenomegala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5899783ed8---5602055102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff3dfed56d3ed27bc52ccb30fdf2da48/rufeveduzizajufazuginewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b234ce15dc4---13610165197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsong.vn/uploads/files/zajovotavim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097be2059c87---zajinolawajido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/17054453105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c15f31d06024a9a186c052e0fbfd2e57/zefawuronid.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_off0000e890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE890 17232 bytes
SHA-256: 3582a86886396a1709a7f4a68bd34dcf964dd657fe054a2b9a13a89cadc04ebd
font_01_sfnt_off0001154b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1154B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D62 11176 bytes
SHA-256: f84320304e95a5aab68589aacd7d018b9746677f9c4165ef97d7f6c0a492e946