Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fb5bc23f8900617…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:26:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8964ad702a21b477a09272c8f0245cac SHA-1: a16866ba2a722d27d5f7a9e230300d57ebf28a5e SHA-256: 6fb5bc23f89006173df398c3869298e415da29cca140a1f00c1d800bc4b33875
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'download button' heuristic further support the attack pattern of luring users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=french+verbs+%C3%AAtre+and+avoir+worksheets+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084353c00aa0---marat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a57f08e0bd9d541bf386374cdae7c220/19182900205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc3c8100f3---piwilexuselesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fd-health.com/upload/ckeditor/files/49132439411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehtbrh7lflv8mc8p2eo1qmq056/debuzavunigidin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1970fchs50thclassreunion.com/clients/1/19/19770213778af891f1b13fa25f964f50/File/vuzadekulufuvisazoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9dda34189---tetuvaguwilevawipixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/79692980752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbn37aee6q4a0ptheu22gj0ved/xavar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1u5f1gtfs2n8tlglrcvlr38i5/lumuxuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7fa0e6657---zokoxetadunufozinazenexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b2902bfa5d3d911adbfb2bf8ac0235f/11048455710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/vokoxugaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a45438001f70fddd0d62bd98a7e748d4/2205947682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10kshot.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dasekevemuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5rl6nnpq5s3i244nhhc8el5be3/badojuwupuwuvogaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/42810522304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da97e32459f---6085372326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072fe938d37b---wotewibevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/sakexutekojiper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.com/article_ressources/file/32810995887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/kadixux.pdfIn 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://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_off0000f054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF054 18692 bytes
SHA-256: dd7d32718a8a551d9c7e32e97492b13b1e66b99e20665d7061ec3d905b91e897
font_01_sfnt_off00011f2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F2A 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 32c23488c8d989cb2f1752a92c1425e39d62179d7afb77494beff8aa919bf2c3
font_02_sfnt_off0001383b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1383B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1