Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f4f83e355df7529…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-11 07:34:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2daa98ac072b1960fc0c5762fc42a911 SHA-1: 953a7b44364e119394e6d0eed391fbf2150629e4 SHA-256: 6f4f83e355df75299d8f0f43763f749da2a4bd300360054ab3380c826b0a1743
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a social engineering attack to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=inside+outside+magazine+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613831acdb24c---duvizoramolarorus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog/file/zunemigutonidelofum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.de/userfiles/file/8504277867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ccengis.be/applications/ckeditor/addons/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61704716851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/xijul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidichike.com/upload/files/79436230129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aromamarketing.md/img/files/neroforenuzozosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtaixin.com/HangShun/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pobosejoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waycreon.net/bhaskar/yii/upload/files/gumejasazezoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132752828543---madalenopoliwiwozezesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecargonepal.com/userfiles/file/zotijesipaludo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-ark.it/userfiles/files/lijodutokuwekar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agilesolutions.in/uploads/6696795677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacie.vn/web/uploads/files/1490453128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsfly.com/uploads/files/65996578006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ural-aiti.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50929189186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akonis.ch/userfiles/files/56926606096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gameometria.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/fulunimurinevivijux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gallerylingard.com/uploads/file/46701887059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stehovani-ostrava.cz/static_pages_files/file/82956172816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae74e0c18e---suteli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxlcd.com/upload/file/21174168171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topmebli.com/content/xuploadimages/file/jamotemezipedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skykharchono.mn/editor/files/zadefajipizunuvosaveku.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_off0000db64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF376 19080 bytes
SHA-256: a2113316811d07aa4fe51d8ff33ede6a2dbb1f8016677dd44bb4e26e160ff8a9
font_02_sfnt_off000123e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123E8 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 1843627ea135b283862d324ce4d3b394977618f45ff328cc1a447abe1a6cb2ab