Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f71963a6b6ea6ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 16:47:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8e9afac9e40a5fe9ba5e74a8b1196618 SHA-1: 337e889be0937cb54e23655203c554af6550044c SHA-256: 6f71963a6b6ea6ac6a8c1380b361f075aa54efb85a7558c6a3a456b9ecd4bd7f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of invoice-related language further supports a phishing lure attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=amortisation+of+deferred+income PDF link annotation
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16093e5fcb13a7---33208024006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d18ff949b8---navikudemanevap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmjdocfaq8f77nch5ulu0msof2/6654827036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kantoromega.pl/userfiles/file/30263672804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830946c581a---namejuxura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b1e161d0e8e3f05522689e0f48a18a4/jeninubokuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080922d320a3---76597773416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c236646fec---kenax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b414d059b7320ee43f140f8912999860/20925008000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30e746b607---77333358470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prairieroseclothiers.com/FCKeditor/file/lelajifasesolamurugoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22klr6m0pmdi8va3hh9o819r48/beritogizulesor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc831bc67a323565d5589b4cee33f130/pepusexejutidakilomibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/gonunukixugorumufuwedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc3ab36cff2---zojaloda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc262536b0---61189840883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e2e7debd9---xomirexunijafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cipetbhopal.com/webimg/files/jalobut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/26617531693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egca.fr/userfiles/file/87599424968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52ca0d576d1658d7036d51d9f802c0c8/lixajedusagedogujux.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_off0000eb84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB84 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 3072d747e6e0bd30a36847d30a427af32ce62eded158727fe0b0b20947691b00
font_01_sfnt_off000103a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BB7 17228 bytes
SHA-256: a0471ee16a92b4f52e057c528aa4d8606c14e0e8cf3f639ad880cd90a3a0a907