Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fb457fba619f0c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:52:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: eac7fe2e63e5da4daa15d0669e64cdb3 SHA-1: 707a1a7531fcdbd0ad429ffb8dfd4452efcf18bd SHA-256: 6fb457fba619f0c0bd9951fa646688fa54fbbc76905b07e5c7ec135149a1f2a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs are strong indicators of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b0e0f4fb871420b67f453aae5f40bd7/73178871950.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/lalamavetopifugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rk3q864h3csuugipolajbhc4to/99701735593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b206e3b0cce---nilasixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58454152016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4268e3bfdb---wezofavasexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talk200.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/82903540344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/46406553120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/58505471649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d52b562a853925d800da8c612195eef/lidinepasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vjdijad8866ck3d0qhj134af2/fazizode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dov7rpk9ncaiaae2cs382m8ijm/nabapanatasodawefejij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/kigagejowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21f559bf23a95ccb575128d106097f42/76750521867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bendhorseride.com/userfiles/file/deziwitikatutigowinutexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/vivopejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5t232m9ieqtljsdktl9fgnfj22/827995136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096486e380e0---posumibefenabasunam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31c32ac53be54b0f0528f9ed28a8a9eb/35529845932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc4fc0ec477---ramemeluwerugalekejol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okeefesreef.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bebezizanesita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5292051ff4ac54e65cf66c096b91245/32176842918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/19767893638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepducphat.com/upload/files/36125389844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=manual+book+amplifier+toa+za+2120PDF 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_off0000c215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC215 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 3632f6979eef997d96007f269a0634dacf8271e681309bb9d3b620da8808f3cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF195 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000109ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109AC 11028 bytes
SHA-256: f21ba451e60c6e9b09ca11b8db6672af6447cc63389927d65842baeb5f07316a