Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f81e3ff8ccfc007…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 16:00:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 23e2b04311eda66a225b8420b905611b SHA-1: db1aad7e8b9bee3f0c63c46f2ea4ff0f754df4b0 SHA-256: 6f81e3ff8ccfc0078cac3eab189f25a00f94ecee88155acf98dff3c1a4e9fff5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL findings are sufficient to classify this as a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/41011490131.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ucity68.com/clients/e/ea/ea220da86df44fb0ae3b7c8e8295ccc1/File/bunujazitov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hnsdcm1t2fh3psmm0ig077f9t0/wexilidofupoxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52d339360b0877a5d96cc8b5c800ea81/poloseseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/to4l96quoab9q4fauha802627l/wuposuzoxufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9pito9cq9r6jsbb0d7ptkmbvtd/37501077795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094df97b7799---gojat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4a0482b21---faxuwekilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.net/contents//files/86972993657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/jelubugulotisomalekeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boucherienabli.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/17068689321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/80437517502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawks79.com/clients/85064/File/fiwisikajalaganotibuvodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c7ff5a5db---jetofus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chixue.com/uploadfile/file/20210613214934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenconcord.com/uploads/files/zipuxetiwajaxozoxupes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/doddorh28rfv4r76064gocsdp1/80609798094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/nirusixonomuganobijugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/99036317027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/57230207532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huron81reunion.com/clients/f/fe/feec28e48c841af8be4ad6373737a022/File/rebezokenafukagesuwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa615b914a2---26367287385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794cdcd15cc---tolujupovubatumisumezine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=positive+physics+answersPDF 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_off00014fc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FC4 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 83c4fa9970ae9426126f1594dc4be7cd5ff8f982e5d4dab9d4a42b8d78204664
font_01_sfnt_off00016866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16866 18172 bytes
SHA-256: cd19e501d94cb90005b1799dd1bdf09f805b3eeb84d5e92b65b0d92a9572eae5
font_02_sfnt_off000198c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x198C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1