Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ffeb4d9f9614a5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:34:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 56f804dbbb1619a17eff701ece7c036a SHA-1: 7d537288b87e4195dfb5ad829a8eda8d319a50bb SHA-256: 6ffeb4d9f9614a5cc22e58a362207b762b9f30f15c02db4444fa5aad0000ee6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24c733e32c467bb5b7c58ceaed73f505/7094301871.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hubbardfamilycircle.com/clients/62940/File/22970906260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalecchi.it/userfiles/files/34919682061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764194134eb---743576597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9fdf65a4b---19151797102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inarchengineering.it/userfiles/files/22576881835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef7d412b71444901068f3bfa6688a515/7043320470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rghsalumni.com/clients/82979/File/sojazodefasepirepek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herve-coiffure.ci/files/15386212360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orhs76reunion.com/clients/30721/File/gelotubikesurorebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/34564479686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/60508443703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gustosandvic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bowonepiweloriwetin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arredamentigiacobbe.it/file/lelonaxadonej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2715ae64692ba2736570b0880b49e69/31504369526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hn3927vvt8lpqticdrk3854lmi/62933756986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crisismobile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saxexeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gp8iqmhov2crf5pvcd0drpn921/48266352026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202106/file/1624481258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaabrahaoosta.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expobar.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/fumosewokowubefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102e9f6dd79f---xoxuzab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abctranslink.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/534071297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/055acc402fe34a8a473f84bcea701767/82057091648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+merge+split+tool+portablePDF 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_off0000d68a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD68A 17704 bytes
SHA-256: 0c2833c63cb8e88ed6e747f4810b5c65d60c4617f918dd5345f8f800f629066f
font_01_sfnt_off00010435.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10435 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C4C 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 23a97eb8f45ffa695ae8f39b835ac3f26cf7bbb232a7276b77af6f805e867a24