Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fd79e5e4bcad027…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 12:00:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 643455c2ff88eaf627a482892f7b618c SHA-1: 023b5fe532c5f234687432748e0d993ed4dbfa1b SHA-256: 6fd79e5e4bcad027172f85513b3b2698d2a77c7ab38bacbc3883940946dd8eb2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Several extracted URLs point to domains that are either compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF's structure and link farm behavior are consistent with attempts to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://livstyle.ro/home/livstyle/public_html/uploads/files/gijiwudefufetenid.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/55555819684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dugesebaremugukobazamoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oolong-dining-co.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/8444678692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elminhaj.org/userfiles/file/68498683282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plaschke-partner.com/uploaded/file/dedareluvafuwomobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvitraders.com/files/nekalotixasidolosifeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/62828480875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projektovanje.info/userfiles/file/kikafatumeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/72008536527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/mazomewolelaxani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161428b0e53848---63795289733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basundharamart.com/userfiles/file/89225484755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907220011691053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vonm4okv6fbj81887n3er2c2h2/jinujove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0ub0p0eeuirl0l5gel1hbgm81/80674907856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161391dcf50f70---pixeperewigolabowuxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertcomptablecourreges.fr/michel_courreges/userfiles/file/27017836296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35261644652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/saguseruwovubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/71754203439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=start+galaxy+s7+in+safe+modePDF link annotation
    • https://www.rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44922157696.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_off0000d4a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A0 17904 bytes
SHA-256: 98bf980bb7032d6dae0dab2ff306a6fa3b5ba58befc620de4a988ffc83cd11b5
font_01_sfnt_off000102cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ae3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AE3 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 687602652745ac4f2c75952d8426aeeb3fe4f2fbe2f309c51020372073509903