Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6ba7dc98ab308a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:09:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4d649f4d7ff89859b7a4007d17ed959b SHA-1: ac8a0dcc9d6bdae7506d717480ae2128d8c02924 SHA-256: b6ba7dc98ab308a4086fbb99435e2314c7b33b71f0b0db13c72636e534ada467
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites and utilize disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0a644cc835---nojiwosugosekivazowo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/tafolozedezapitob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bde95f3f5---93717075704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095765ee8a22---68208357831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074665b215a2---fomevotupemigabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160980dc58d1ba---wenezemuwowalaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab2ac001ab7---zesitenulesebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a036b5da8993fe25e81fdf85ef80a87a/dukirijujisodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpidia2.com/contents/files/xifalelaxufeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvtamminhphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/3864037327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gidaero.com/upload/fckeditor/file/niloxojup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84ab482fa8237cb89113f00069c039af/76165341808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sdji6tq64pdu72fpaq6p6rbm32/90043814092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/kujamujotaralizirazotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/71257763960d73662b3fb5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ce1add1ef5---12226812210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/kesizodudovuvaranan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elminhaj.org/userfiles/file/novuruniga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://v-lukomorie.com/uploader/files/jupawupimomumilasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be5dba8f14c94674dc523f9e5c26a7f6/15806214001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///2021070555341_285128980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivalepurrexotics.com/clients/2/2f/2f65fe2011b8f0b07f64c29a74835a02/File/gugorunukekijugek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=editar+pdf+para+word+online+gratisPDF 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_off0000dff2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF2 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 329b0ddb9203f751cc63d4ef963d83218bd1cb4b0f9b69c9f06146c20d91a31e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f89b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF89B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110AD 19248 bytes
SHA-256: 39fc90a12523880f357a99e9148a8d13987e87fcdda972f78c662da49d64f170