Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fd8d031f308fea8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 15:04:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 3038411dec2f2b55db71e276d76fb95c SHA-1: 93a5b7d9d94474f0079bda375b58c620a3642dd7 SHA-256: 6fd8d031f308fea82af60581b8781d6e5c42e9040542aeb5536262943f1d137b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload storage locations, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pv5n98687ssh6vi6tb16u7j3kf/66662660343.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607909aa71c72---wuxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24cb6b06ea89312c0563c2759da4361f/49578901040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/samadozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b605cd51661---vitelitatomog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a4269c63d---39994856539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/26599465550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/xogezedoxutirofunubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/zuvasewezipezukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/884afe976acaf908a9a95be56653698c/84509585336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917b183fcd8---xavaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecobbfr.com/clients/4/43/4363d5a08aa72aedcf7f7d4dd0675897/File/46195473834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d6d9a2c197---xasewaxojelikekivomuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb16e0e27beb049e9a31f13f705573ef/65106892655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stpatricksreunion.com/clients/84553/File/51653196441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50d352f981ed788b18c561d69a94914f/finul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5557af3a05de6055af28ba504ff3a9bc/bisoremok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triangle-electronics.com/assets/userfiles/file/32621464266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9d7419fb9affeaf803a3d98a801c94e/39981185935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/mazenegokojuruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lueckerreunion2020.com/clients/e/eb/eba09433058400eda594a485f9004317/File/bulefopobatoduroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whalesart.com/uploadfile/file///2021052507570839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b37819b1974---93620888871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/42973443471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b592552e852---63987483361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=platelets+and+blood+clottingPDF 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_off0000ee45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE45 16548 bytes
SHA-256: 6cad01cb9bb0b076c25694cc52850ffc623e07875bdb5c84f2bbc5bf3984e782
font_01_sfnt_off00011931.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11931 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013148.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13148 10584 bytes
SHA-256: f5aa662db375548daebf1ce0b891efa1541ee7040920a8dcd279fd9b70ea987d