Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f9f8d7c954957c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-28 01:24:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bdf8e3398352d9a27bff0dbf3e64e1e7 SHA-1: 8373f36ff401659ae4d4feeb82d83cad9c55d115 SHA-256: 6f9f8d7c954957c02883a039c7b9c5c21e034adacc46945a071d42bdfd0527a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead users to malicious content or exploit kits. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be57fa39b12412ef99b4c1f729f3c782/99486455188.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/suxofusezasonul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniontend.com/userfiles/files/20315599922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/38533571095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac87cb8c42781f417d843d317a69dea3/xibibumuwulawajugepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f36111832---kigenujonap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e95a28fb37d99785fc13286feebbf42a/69610209680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3il5qln1m1k9k39jrdg4v709i2/vozenajuxilikukiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c28525982fd61fd7f29527098fd5eb1/xolisexotevokugowazulof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b252f0c9a---tavamuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c9126fb18---xonatoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/mafotapulorusezuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1b59991b5---99969430905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/lupomimawuridoxanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d40d482ab7---satadetataguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/76343701102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bidvq650uecnmn39rk8vombamn/dedevimajas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/wometaroluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/50434931220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitra.su/uploads/ckeditor/files/vugowonuponif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc3b0bdef0a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/41954972895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowagon.it/userfiles/files/jedumal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/nekive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac5a75bcbde---97323305169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+your+old+roblox+accountPDF 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_off0000eb63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB63 17092 bytes
SHA-256: fc55da7e9e5152f1b9139ee8de3026c2c946d5488fe2202b7ca69cedc18ce24e
font_01_sfnt_off000117ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117FF 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 3867e37397fa2c6bfabf1a871cdca769f8622399df2729824f3f4d4dd1cf74ec
font_02_sfnt_off000130af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1