Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f264a307402f820…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:45:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 13216b121a65aec66bc1258f235970a1 SHA-1: 717647546f58b1bd74a5b7dee7cd507bafc9a7bf SHA-256: 6f264a307402f82097ef4113c505625b01b5ac2335bd05600beaeb482f71d0a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=muslim+wedding+card+format+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://yukkumpulgroup2.com/contents//files/56261573660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1976ahhs.com/clients/32223/File/84098060001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nonbodepsg.com/uploads/files/21408330067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francescofesta.it/userfiles/files/85611432672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-box.biz/upload/datoteke/reluzexixibewivizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae778e478d40c7361072b37cdbd44ed6/65094575338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/87746197085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210727_5EFCD9F2CD73685F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/83724617735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3575d16d65417b492eba7aebd93cb490/wonizobenuxipunivolufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dccae1d72452fd27f4c5890985301625/pixirexubawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc222266eb---bofibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d6e9b2ea6---22729787843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/71994878028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a711e50e3379e878d8a62d17a2a17227/raxevulene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e36543fda---99292252362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanhaithanhvalves.com/quangcao/admin/file/96558497348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naplesredeals.com/userfiles/files/28798847347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiszelyugyvediiroda.hu/docs/file/39971047882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parkettworld.com/upload/files/843382343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/danopedisujubik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/99292616619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status-go.net/gfx/userfiles/files/nabelurevupukonesumiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extrastyle.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vipibatupafadesefuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profitaler.com/UserFiles/file/nulugojabadezafixenusimij.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_off0000b854.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB854 11144 bytes
SHA-256: a66e707715aad290fe0bd909285d04d7fabd28672d994edd71aa3bf285af72a1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d233.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD233 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA45 15372 bytes
SHA-256: 2c9d7f9960226871971ffd202ee7962e17e812ec230544ed316c87efebdd873b