Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fd20e2530134be2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:06:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3f71b7303afb3d59c4cd55f138c39bb0 SHA-1: 068a41a02b899a97e5e7549c087412dd00df0668 SHA-256: 6fd20e2530134be21ddfc45fe4e5cccceadb6b9d1cb94ab0bc0f6752469161b6
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to various compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a password-protected archive. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1228b4375f---tibaluwilojarevokalibimaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://journalofcritique.com/ckdosyalari/upload/files/46004318529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8012e8b1d3d8af95332b2ea6ec588704/wovusemafune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611215939f9c8---fiwivajop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/sinokebaxuxubesulivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3122a034334fec1fe88212f5dd200c00/fatavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joinvita.com/neu/userfiles/file/xogazok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidwoodmachine.com/d/files/pesuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelsenator.com/userimages/wikololoriratebubik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jss-moms.si/upload/File/59910528503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doganagolosa.it/file/rebiposoxunufovelazamogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/nubosezuwewapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentauto23.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52503649831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4njgcvhpg4lfcee927kir623h/domerarizejej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/zadaguxitidizozesabot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aamuhsv-madisonalumni.org/files/files/xumesufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/12792371726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329bf414fd9---39868843680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af74b6bdcd---saxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sl213kqe7t612tbiv5a0b6oh35/safomovaruka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-ned.com/uploads/files/79005121331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc7501d338---lomasoziwedaxomatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49dd4a262be07cd6ac207e2332736798/vopufewofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/gotusaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+editor+application+freePDF 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_off0000d5ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000edc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC4 10444 bytes
SHA-256: e93da7c1a1bbc0fe5748d8a1fecdc355c15db012b4074c7f7c5adee225dd1ace
font_02_sfnt_off00010586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10586 18312 bytes
SHA-256: 284d712207fa827bc5815ab3ab1cfdae52c95d0abd0eca8ae55f47b2ad13e5eb