Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6652582398f64fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-07-29 15:00:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1c321db97e9558b4a01ed01c17f54319 SHA-1: aec3c25e907ae518361ed0c3defb0af7713ed97a SHA-256: b6652582398f64fab01b0fe2470fc870d67a55b813d5e6b70f09d5585b882dd9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports the malicious nature of the hosted content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+turn+photo+into+cartoon+free PDF link annotation
    • http://degeninhotel.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rerejutogedatapew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d565d6e45---19838988896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/46333921277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b9bdd18bb---56882129838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/nebaziwifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/28213044879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/99674714678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c02c04924c10f6e2f46478434d963ce/75201671716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806c5a8dbc8---zozuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2c179e15i7j6gllt62bnj2iop/55181793723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/53725012899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e7d9bcd7b---11549689016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/vijad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b649b56d1d5---lugaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ju4evmgknk5vujp080vjubu0mp/fejuxomakinog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c050706bfe9---zosuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12bc13b08583dc7f3d546e103c609945/letalotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b755d60caa3---direbeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8cd059d5d---piwilisita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhijo3d2imediko1r9ds1thbtv/13293625378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2eb793541e---94190843421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zatilowosodejukaxekez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/39171209699.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_off0001030d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030D 17572 bytes
SHA-256: b55ab6ba8ca3b958898c07c02b674116068ab3af5023428172885c785d86e1e4
font_01_sfnt_off0001316f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1316F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14986 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 2cff42475abefb2a996f3f60c3d9c89ce2dac064dad7ed7b9e001347da2b5742