Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f9d3915ca7b5d59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 05:08:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fb1e12410f45b7ff9fec3597aee13c19 SHA-1: b6b75f39e9ad9a3ffb1eb9e625553708574ca8c6 SHA-256: 6f9d3915ca7b5d5983990f2863df2498f4bba59770561eaa574014809f23dffa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious payloads. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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 https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1d9979fea6500ba602ffe84a379e545/68496808961.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/72429739410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://componentcnc.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88495686631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ed54aa0c3d---56905197156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4t4rfg6bj9i1v2c9da185mjhp4/61453043939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7adc12a660---72473430183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/fefojuzere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac3ca05e48---41302670580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210622_65BF3746853690F5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/87160155832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/25252434158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbae6n52ld6t0pcvjs80vvlur1/14889706296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea90a95f35466059c887515ef15ca32f/xuluwowulowoxolinuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9c99976f1---92308995354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca1e297ced4---koxini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/42015857445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba84002910---73176950601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ea092f9aaeefd19f0eecd1bb13b291c/54339102446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab987d495d---birosuwulazilujidabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/33974495298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887316dc36a---11441042567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fc6135349---gorosetikofedifari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/beripofaril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/lupebumoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e1c05a198ab137e223b20fbb7ce9455/tumivuvutozuzos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca63b4f6fae07156a3d2f78b87589ef8/tokonopijadimodopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba82686864ee968403bb756404bcfee9/xogiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/bewexefisukoxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=house+of+darkness+house+of+light+volume+3+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0001162c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1162C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012e43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E43 11452 bytes
SHA-256: e869839d0c7b3d8761398c40c05ac8edaf6ac180d71652c8671ef606a815d938
font_02_sfnt_off000148fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148FC 16884 bytes
SHA-256: 639be332850a6d54226d77ca04e5647bf01254d3a164e8f813940d78525ad59c

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