Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f5949dbe7a3cb30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-24 05:48:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 97463d400746e6920adca61a80e56cf7 SHA-1: ce4c7d7787f126b37f3e2e854eb554f75dbecb7f SHA-256: 6f5949dbe7a3cb30ffc6a5553a28a97d213c560e4a2fefca4a538b130f9bd362
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, forming a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these link farms suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb26qfq7nnfn4v6fvfo2fh7pj7/84779886664.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hbleg.com/admin/userfiles/files/92006618902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2ca8b4605---16476317585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d5d1b2952---50405370464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jf-orvalho.pt/userfiles/file/jesegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90biuavaf36bu1ldf536g1ivk4/29467824837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df7e3617e70---34946209878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fetkuuc7ma2hjjv4i56pcp8sg7/papuvovolomiluwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhahangphongcanh.com/uploads/files/25608813964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a620hac144pvgekfcmecb5o4ve/81906771817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/90907738159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a90ad89c8f8---2652875687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc7017e117---japogawopisopekovudade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/tanoralekaposizogolowutar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/37130810993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d193a7598b---vovemowumugukewoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nitatika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/bivorile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cde881b759---86517100681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c72923ce988---91521925447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be279b937b315082201cfd74f8d14b2c/59103674726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srl506qmavqg5h9rfvta201i8v/rivapipadilugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itandem.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12033776822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bf2e13e16---63351759591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7977a328b31a2bcd946588e3df5d6112/viganapemokadedujedefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=grulla+origami+facil+paso+a+pasoPDF 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_off0000e98b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE98B 10628 bytes
SHA-256: ba3428e900866e23628901a1e61a0908a657b5e66be61c43c6dabbc8c78b2210
font_01_sfnt_off000101dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000119ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119EE 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 9ba16d237f2e66f79ac602285453fe6282ce380f9f6a8f1328389cb25bf73f3f