Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ff039b7995fbef9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-18 09:02:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2d759f0f82990d8fbbc5bb870876b67d SHA-1: ebec9180cbfd1898c9d215ab5808852eb754e8f8 SHA-256: 6ff039b7995fbef956b3e6edaf66efea961211a81afd8ee52d932845a110b076
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users into downloading further malware or engaging in phishing activities. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/19964211656.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0436d2f7d---82006157938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1c13d573bcb2fc32ae5ad455e0bd5ad/detasuxabito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a066e6ffec---majol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kaaib7b8689bp0ild5t3pg7hi8/31180919131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvmoku1v0rl67rlvmm2m4d0rvc/53055690862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e62f33929---nizokafofebudedexubobuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/dejalugedirurapol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/fizifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ar5ukrl8e7j29ckk0p87jk0fst/72535017420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artside.org/data/temp/file/93848801200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/koxanumenavumigaxerun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/37253648466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inistor.com/ufiles/files/63567861088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p7aa7nm6nsmuubjq3mjmefjm59/52086997624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/domevorigaxevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/28887455273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calzaturificiocatia.it/userfiles/files/53587726597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099df240cdd8---xowubisodarivoxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad5cd0b4d2---vatosetibifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df362bbddc---pusigojakuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=location+of+light+dependent+reactionsPDF 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_off0000f968.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF968 16904 bytes
SHA-256: bec1144ff878b16cd33227b1bee92bcea1c3820806b8a0cdde9189f36cb523f8
font_01_sfnt_off000125a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125A8 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 288e4a80cae964c0b35b15d39acd05cfd5d4f4b4cf4bd859a67fba23bb731ae8
font_02_sfnt_off00013e71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1