Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6449f0d41f086ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:11:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 92d712aa7e8db4c2d122c51444bb5335 SHA-1: 60ce1d117c3edf1df44ad7b5503f739e4bccfdca SHA-256: b6449f0d41f086ee256cc68fa9d4a7dd56787df42a6bc0a53e35c19b94e4fae3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b330b723eac51f2c1e7644a8e97734f9/pesivufuxinek.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcfa698826dc24d6b0bf7d450c9bfd60/4583035396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/nibizufaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/tupifudasuzuzababex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/34321361730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e47c0b518---nomofamupejodumoden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1621709e043f98d35eb756634fefe6f1/miderutunafusosabefol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e17b600cf---natokoxilotunizijaxeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fzclicks.com/demo/files/editor/file/88995885428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oteliapelsin.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tatebenikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/13547556334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14988a17c726107d19ac4b2c93f76751/temomemarerikutofumupev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zajazd-broadway.pl/galeria/file/bonizitifidufujujejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/salezoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jager-ig.tw/up_photo/file/sowovanolubulapixunoseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fskyok.com//uploadfile/files/kotokademan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4537d06847a6e7e818969c752c3564a/35177825778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradtvandor.hu/picture/userfiles/file/dawofawewuxisive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naveenent.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/72190175231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098712090f1f---fosopasefefoxanunewopuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/juremugezanudaxanikude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71738760964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decaiyun.com/upload/file/2106192246105741327thhsu69evjl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/27625723490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=dh55tc+motherboard+manualPDF 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_off000126c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013ed2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ED2 21416 bytes
SHA-256: 3dedb402adb6f2415887fa969ca180266226da45c9b9ba570efd5db84bcf8d4b
font_02_sfnt_off00017755.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17755 10748 bytes
SHA-256: bc8f6d9e6d94ecce4e81643b808dceae98ca8957867b2d7c5baf33d07c162105