Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f9fd58e07f4a71b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-06-12 11:44:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: da293392e9c6a71cd8843cf469ef1da4 SHA-1: 2d2f03894d4a6ee70ab7fe73e58625617b12c5d7 SHA-256: 6f9fd58e07f4a71bb3a16870dcb8281009b8c799b5bc9354b00388ef11f0bb9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+perils+of+being+moderately+famous+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/pejawalasagozenelukufafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6c66eab68a03bbfb607cedd3f8d7c6b/konepigizututibewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49b1b129b014de0691826be73259409f/sojutumatimuvak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memoservicesrl.it/file/xewarixip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609992c1d0cde---laniketini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5c149fc0d---80133511542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jl-vacuum.com/upload/files/72109604445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/45005605323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64db95e4e5---20297710631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607289fa9f188---81042698488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/937cf4a6cdd0466e4a6e5311ceb61002/16582394210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beatmuellerfoto.ch/userfiles/files/24632732511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/371ecb94f49a1542fbca069e05e6767c/44187592189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba3b2fb2f7aa0b937f7b35943acb5760/80161815065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824125e3332---36350042489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/680402e89ff4ebd1b590428fe7a0f82e/25180298271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victoriousintl.com/new/resource/files/25639797491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/44055712679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fc6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC6A 5708 bytes
SHA-256: abd1d251491b8faf46360dd4f9052d0ebf7db048bb9b79a1c0321e104542dfe8
font_01_sfnt_off00010fab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FAB 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 1a90bdcc0ef7a0864c3b3e1ba5f711680ed6d6f714d96615310daf8d4d6a0434