Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f31396cbf738105…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:54:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f9e8a0e9346dd865463f51a37945f32a SHA-1: 5e1d5881461576dedcd283bef7ed081b9fc4e633 SHA-256: 6f31396cbf738105175e33ab1cd3df022e7908d977132803225cd12a1043fb1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links suggests the document's primary purpose is to lead users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://varadimasszazs.hu/uploads/files/86731920550.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89225825190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e920ff7e2f0---92206518549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinecommerce.bg/uploads/pages/files/74195122631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/silubozidisetumiberurowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d503efa90---10663137626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g89lbbmrh5lgk90q747387k162/muwadalunile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benedictinoselrosal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19154505190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/76453431172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rtaqs65n8caimh2mhcc83rlm81/wovabajab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090dabb8f644---68845373282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballstonfamilymedicine.com/clients/861402/File/44264602986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/xipekusiziponifanafudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lroundup.com/clients/d/d7/d7466da0ad72d96b64793f89c518a0d9/File/21192259230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/69286392515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71bf517271---61454269904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117bbead0153---tifutiwarofazipode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31a2b7474b---99919480505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-recepty.sk/images/fotky/55700168098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/075d7bd5f24efafacee2d24bbc6e234e/fazod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcroyale.hk/userfiles/rosedarenipagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68885579125b4f186e12051016889882/54420197949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=pvc+chicken+coop+plans+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_off0000d2f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2F1 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 6179430b84974b391e247e7a79d380466715fc2b020682705e04797a284b6b6d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF48 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 9c9a8285d19b2ec1b4199a319561881e5442fee8feaadd0ed6e433f4648f1b4d
font_02_sfnt_off000117ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1