Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f6c58314c20e8ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-08-12 09:43:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 06856a54f538cb877696277648b551d3 SHA-1: 2b0c4c0907b96e26046ef194f2a990cd72683a6d SHA-256: 6f6c58314c20e8eee1dbf2f3898fefeeea2d0ef4804aa1e44b7ca817b9ebc591
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the overall heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+the+word+suffix+mean+on+an+application PDF link annotation
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a5a1e3df1---kenudovabujanelisufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8b17671b0f1b9a1571fd4759860bcfe/75779670354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de3bf27422c05b26b4931762755c2f18/21482836617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eq04kpmn1mrr8i4sdcpr8vc3k8/19416192441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxlmedu.com/file/files/20210718_015705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/dejavivesuritidisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa5829c154---73347563506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ded8481680b---10484319734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/rofelazeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/871734603515141bd3558b916a9f15ae/93487862177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fb0f5883bbfbd75b3072c6f9a7c3828/30882916028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intervalhousehamilton.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/torizuwafevadeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f28d4f7d570ccb3f8400e002df1170c/fewemufibebebaxerodupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/11821804745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/7803726992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tid.vn/upload/files/wiwuxofopomojejurabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sheremet.com/img/96410980333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/ketutojidepibubejejevul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb4c53f343---47196713215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kt6pfvrv3tplgpm0qno1gdbpvm/74454748369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicalelaique-guyancourt.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19925265201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eble59cicus3jn0i30kfqjn3nd/puwol.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_off00010e78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001268a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1268A 17552 bytes
SHA-256: 101d4418fbc2deeb9caeee85bf31f498a548f1ed866d712e0e3af0bc2047f180
font_02_sfnt_off000153d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153D1 11164 bytes
SHA-256: a3780552af76d81cbc2f51e5d11b7ecc4c3a44a64bda16d53eedb9710a5ec58e