Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f181f56f9b9dc29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-08-20 19:26:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c27d3055d63833c18527965bff594c0d SHA-1: 4725e3f6fbd2c88e9ef8139562e775637903cdcc SHA-256: 6f181f56f9b9dc29144777438a39e73f85f8c73f6c8aaee8f9fd8016bf97e683
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' reinforces the attack pattern of using compromised infrastructure to host malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f2c557709be22a3d986ed944839a437/rujiwolefudewibivaxediba.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://irish-setter-zucht.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53486222116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84734029233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da2d699ea2b414b60f4e0eba9c2f22cb/rageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e5fe0bcfb08ae82fa84e64a022a6d8f/8117592882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemmacapitalgroup.com/foto/file/fetesilatesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d868654ce43---rulajafozotowegopitotedor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pickup-ws.com/userfiles/files/58620198750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/12529786003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carroll1975.com/clients/4/4e/4e2b018d07aaa5a30c3e4fca1c7a8df7/File/16432046169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c73e7b47ada---60863657179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humboldthighclassof79.com/clients/1/19/19f040aad945c40a0acbd79abd3dc6cb/File/45863173338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce3f220d726---ferizaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/vujinapugoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventechsite.com/files/files/zepodewexol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/43577394909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd3998b131---fakamuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d92j2pj7f6kakmvsa64tqvu6us/pomeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vimewenadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/95035011079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e89ad951246c970e9536fa0e6e7b1053/jinixabitemedivexeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9tbd9ji8kqgbhhou7ubm4a3lu3/65072153335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stop-remont.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31303612025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/nafufetikodovaxoselusezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bff848bf02d---96925550760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/bifud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=manjaro+terminal+commands+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_off0000fcbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCBE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000114d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114D5 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 71c1cfcb465a03f4152792a967eed606da32ac46efdcb77e3575c9b44b03d69c
font_02_sfnt_off00012df9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DF9 19536 bytes
SHA-256: 38cc1c8ea0f64c71dd6f5daa0b62f736eaa6864812312ae8a2a04859b7e7e0a5