Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f3cec62551d6135…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 05:00:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 13d5c4a2f71d09fc81a654d14b2f79fa SHA-1: d813a390c786643dbc063e1be8e8e257a4e5caa6 SHA-256: 6f3cec62551d61357fa6e015794fbf299216ef1668d93b6395b779ce5e408217
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which are identified as link farms on disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=printable+nonfiction+articles+with+text+features PDF link annotation
    • https://thaibamboorestaurant.ca/phpsites/bard_ford/uploads/file/winibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ice-group.pl/userfiles/file/jimeziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahitotfalu.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76018284510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plantbiochem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44666867844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/luzotoside.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiemhoamo.tiemhoahaibara.com/data/dulieu/files/dufosigegerit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talentfuturesservices.com/sharpinstitute/images/files/18025548690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomaszbizon.tomaszbizon.pl/web/uploads/files/tazelazipivofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/fatumixalurepefezaradoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangshi-you.com/uploads/files/202109101548097005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pretaporter-pegah.com/userfiles/file/tilikorupazapuwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dh2oved3ugnsaafvbc9843e6o7/33061602703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica-mpt.it/userfiles/files/xavozigazediroforediru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jocoseatee.com/userfiles/files/21592208045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sql110.com/pic/pogaxavobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://language-coach.pl/uploads/files/jariwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/debanasisokeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/puzitigimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpm-sa.com/userfiles/file/51483576933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/javovuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designbeginnings.com/upload/file/74171229852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b346f047ecf2f827cfb35ac95708564/4534424478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveranigioielli.it/userfiles/files/92482580412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161376d4646fee---gumudepunowijiloz.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_off0000d552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD552 16644 bytes
SHA-256: b61224f3c8a2ca8607aa572531d533283bbf9349c9e3535b70063475ea266314
font_01_sfnt_off00010008.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10008 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001181f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1181F 10860 bytes
SHA-256: abea448a42f86b1afdadfb44313b3bc7b26448a3cbc8f4e5a886748f18bf3ec1