Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f6fd9a61140ed57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-06-18 03:21:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1aa6e0a35ba44364aa96e45aa0a621ea SHA-1: c5776ce7eecc6acdfec941a0f6d7b10c333e73e4 SHA-256: 6f6fd9a61140ed577561df7115bcb34fc749c49665457fd791b7077d55e0384c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of irrelevant search terms in URLs indicates an attempt to obscure the malicious nature of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pawan+singh+ka+gana+hd+video PDF link annotation
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c89e985262---34481925976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765e27c09ca---balulogesesiwugorafon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcmcpropertyblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca54267fc623914184956146ecdd2da5/zapevonuzoferijuloja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6f7a780d5---55268315656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab8553145b73f7f5626c3257075bbd19/repimumodomavis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a710df092f4---vutibaribanes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bvksvmfcfilclqa6lgfl47ccbk/26803017569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ec992f0d8---sujibokeminewupeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/82034822016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607879b5d8a1a---bekexosapilito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50a28e463717ec3f53edf911997b5020/91916300200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c667f458abf---37175192763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4604353e91afb072f847ee8ab06077d1/rabixakikizabuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44ff9dce9f0bc2236c966055d42b6037/8684683713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa3fc6654e---lekisagozawinulagolopiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb3f0b755a40c2b9ac4b2e543314bf1d/lekuwevazaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lmeackrl9mc9vt6d6likdmian/73515482240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arzhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/63599428758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8ul130f63e62c4giitg6t95t0/kefabexitixupego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC0A 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 02f706b9560ab4cf8369b11e078a73505fe3f6bf5e503ec9c583668607211c70
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDBC 3720 bytes
SHA-256: d5ecec3e822993868ba70e247019bcdb656a9fee58d620eb93bc70658e929280
font_02_sfnt_off0000e917.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE917 2092 bytes
SHA-256: 9fcfd2b2c12c9d480c0beec3ee39f05b9e518edc5177a7a5fcc68dff0371f8a2
font_03_sfnt_off0000f2b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B8 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 4e089cdf8e9bf810712831509c733d68d1a9c9503cc8606ba72ef2e1fdbea839
font_04_sfnt_off00011609.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11609 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 717915a89b8be4258a211cadcaf7f6c059427bd62aa0e572590ed67b4afcd9ca