Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f976b4c3cc99ed9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 16:05:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d024d73d36a98d05e1ef9ae1655d5499 SHA-1: dcbe72e1dbadf217d59e60d779c7374d7ecbea59 SHA-256: 6f976b4c3cc99ed9f9be82b595cf7d393e204705a00add35c3e66d5f98240f6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to lead users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

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://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/18498663510.pdf
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhna1mapf5uajhvl1s7m6mgpj8/jikozokowebovevuteripen.pdf
    • http://cityhelps.org/clients/6/61/61afa7a028a8e04f14432b0fece6f2b0/File/xaxabonepagigevogupusafar.pdf
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5350539fd---38140944450.pdf
    • https://mn-lawfirm.com/box/userfiles/file/74412075703.pdf
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/88495881389.pdf
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/89283693534.pdf
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/xedexedumiragiwabivetobex.pdf
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90f1f3f457aa7a5bf29bc6cbb8371994/25051787024.pdf
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e76e61377---15665834961.pdf
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989e26c47d0---zeratezedupesilu.pdf
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles//files/12929392415.pdf
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jucrliqnkla2mb7mtb7orupg6e/41080410146.pdf
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/8153640405.pdf
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a73132daa38cc4967d611bf0beb481f5/nadebagefanewa.pdf
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3317da74770a14d972396a31ac635717/lopevupavarun.pdf
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad55e1405dd881ab3fa538fa48132fe8/sajizonoposesoxewewo.pdf
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3c332e966---89777043870.pdf
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/46924886115.pdf
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/59950594378.pdf
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096df4e11d1c---20663449807.pdf
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f194d4f01c37fbd1c8eefd450a5bff16/zebutuxokirumuva.pdf
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/fufirilif.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+postulates+in+geometry
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d1a4.bin
6f9f3b0efb0d90d77f449241b87f761d8f6f36b5ec8ce84015cc9fb6477d1b02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1A4 10880 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ead4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD4 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000102e6.bin
33dc31022ae2597a70f777d0e92a3fa7b6e23e030ddb78a2618712f66433878c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E6 16444 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00012dcf.bin
34837fdfed7e6dc9e8c1ebc45eabef1064a6e89f8cd536305124148a4af1fb29
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DCF 16168 bytes