Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f1701060ce875b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:08:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 542957ae261ce542f351d7820568526d SHA-1: ba25e81f55b58ff67af1e131190b42d52e6c98d0 SHA-256: 6f1701060ce875b84bb344422d91d522c3c97b7c54c05e2cd33548eb078bc3ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which lead to disposable hosting or compromised content management systems. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://mfdesign.hu/files/file/sefekepokakaxoxipotu.pdf
    • https://koratspring.com/upload/file/33619206203.pdf
    • http://nepodoshlo.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30465786374.pdf
    • http://shanghaicruiseparty.com/uploads/file/29240339351.pdf
    • https://ecodiagnost.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2997408238.pdf
    • http://stellarvvv.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82034206966.pdf
    • http://rund-sro.cz/UserFiles/File/gitepojew.pdf
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e396d1bbce---70247261357.pdf
    • http://studio70.eu/userfiles/files/64503840438.pdf
    • http://artiguardia.pl/userfiles/file/13837791097.pdf
    • http://qqsbg.net/uploads/file/39039885875.pdf
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/bipaselefefipuvupupara.pdf
    • https://ietc-oman.com/userfiles/files/25352121952.pdf
    • http://charugarware.com/DEVELOPMENT/charu_garware/uploaded/userfiles/file/65159721389.pdf
    • http://www.greenfield-sustainability.com/images/files/63626158100.pdf
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f7c7857a4dd421a04a187d640149d17/52115219849.pdf
    • https://ww150004.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210909021328.pdf
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/tavopi.pdf
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fh6paikjidqk4usc37bk7n0g3/zowumefebitadusol.pdf
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/395aac153366283ab2bc763d17e262c7/34028946608.pdf
    • http://aedjtjdshbf.pretty-match.com/upload/files/suwuvavagi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=navigation+bar+size+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bc8f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC8F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4a6.bin
caa3c5d61641003a87164f89c0d20211525e11221502f5eb9172520a18858510
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A6 10620 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecec.bin
b40e800aa713057c4f9e6e5ff51075ee05a872eeb280c1325d5e0ba48be853c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECEC 17520 bytes