Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f826baacae3761c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:44:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0c5579743754c1f09c4eee75e4de4f87 SHA-1: 0d8dda4907bb94c567889d3c642afe83fe627204 SHA-256: 6f826baacae3761c941d0d4db75c6a7dc196258c01481e29c0cf98b6b0c2ba45
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a phishing or spam distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12207086569.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad767013835---62436231858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/nemuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miracleschoolministries.com/survey/userfiles/files/ranulogexewevagepex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0337b1e704e571108f35b05d5b9a9bd/58558507302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6c0e9e7f5---lupup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kochamsushi.pl/UserFiles/file/49587622094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e2bbab8d9ffba610c48c04f887da193/nusupenuwubogisexurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/62062607783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608808e22f31d---45077960487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815e5a8e8a9---84953698111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d06b8fc6b0b---sosajejivuvuneposuzuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b167bb5f3b5---98143080357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01f0da2c6e0fba7305296a0ff4ebe7db/wumudugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcee563e8c1---65744128817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/nenuridekorevita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06975cdfb1ed68943530e7e83234c5fa/sepomunupavedimizapebexob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a090efab11b---98059620447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/romula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1f44fe5748e1197796171bc08590277/55929825748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982d4dce3be---vibejavupebufofepoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeat.ru/var/files/rikisejewewenisatabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=breast+cancer+metastasis+to+supraclavicular+lymph+nodesPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4919bdb73fe94d0f2b7df5ac773e9171/xurisifawaposo.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_off0000f012.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF012 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10829 11112 bytes
SHA-256: b0a900b50d76af9e8da652134010e8c4710bce95e822c2b8a4e3730582f8ec0d
font_02_sfnt_off000121ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121EC 16728 bytes
SHA-256: c0a8c0ce5295b51c2375442d3982a482b69d944e5edceff3195f3b70118e99fd