Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f77fb89245e9202…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 13:42:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5fbd58a70e8c3c1834ba511dcf2d556e SHA-1: eb2f07d108c4b036de9f6b45721b4ddd6fc144fe SHA-256: 6f77fb89245e92029055c868a3c6634302cd0221a6bf439ccc6cdad381c99dea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing page or malware download. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic confirming the use of a link farm on potentially disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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 http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f804daeed---tujudabipuvukereb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076adec717ea---nowima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35a83ac0cf---bekawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb13048d911d4ed98def6414b0949414/91050502485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa58b579a4a---zajidibegeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://q-web.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/558bc7u7qkfe8fl1op82556dn0/56271959048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940cae17876---movorewedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiabiru.com/contents//files/45106743623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://douzonebnf.com/upload/file///31516544860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/17859119629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f495382959---jutepuwitaselo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/93271274210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/88625450551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608641f5bfc21---8842658006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f500276e2d---32930782708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec5d2c38db---goriguzesufafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/17569614429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvld53tkrds7bhkkqmd1dcum6k/58320889867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8759da86bc---bofomok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/novit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6aab36a70---gedakokoxumekiwod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/riwevewuduxuzomafekad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772a7b4e961---xakivag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anup.bo/images/files/52432671421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roxivelexewixikuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=general+science+pdf+for+competitive+examsPDF 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_off000130b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000148cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148CB 18268 bytes
SHA-256: 7472797e519417437d985d17c7d467fbb98144b7a6455e86e826985b587405b6
font_02_sfnt_off000178e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178E5 10988 bytes
SHA-256: fe8a2d84ba48245114d5fe678b87b1bd365d3277258eec2872d09897a6c30c37