Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6d83c7a4045972a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-09 20:03:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0c5882064c38e9c68cd632e6b34b80d9 SHA-1: 707fcfefd4823104c71c432e70ee511d425f0ddb SHA-256: b6d83c7a4045972a668a1e2ad553ad5578873273cc0dce621f497f5c046588c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or redirecting users to malicious content. The document's structure as a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute traffic across multiple compromised hosts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/xifewufepudufonivosaloxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8362face6ed5c9f9c7da4d0be121163d/badopomorenabufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k745frvibmm084i3c0ng0gjbko/tofabifujivuvoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muslimofwestbengal.com/mwb/editor_upload/files/12884654797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c265a5af1b73cbadc784f53da6971aca/70824469531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9chmiv3sk79f55j6tlbvrmmigj/28539661740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/foneremosafase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7fc3705478---48584713499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c351389005b---15688254386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faabe1a1fe5e02d4c932220564a5b00d/zunepuvakasaxofusewevep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47bf9e958801b7b1a70ca7d12f011961/risemupirigotowoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhs1970.com/clients/9/98/98bceae81adeaace0f0761aa7b0d12fa/File/lekukovanimoduxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/crdd60o9p8parjml5cah593nj4/dewapubasopusomug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30f702e3e0671ac0ef3ef32fff5a79ea/fubebomivibusewatemixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/70171553557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c929ccbab27---19032817750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/23971218308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d03gopc1ibql70rvum9ns35jup/96624637554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h743hda0scl5ps83978e7dkf26/39571552874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/39084432627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4068c0d61fd1078e226a3048e642eb96/niduroroguwizalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7004f4c790d14996c86837a64d1cd396/97625164441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29i9fsnql6i3mthp2v64ke3d95/xonem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=present+and+past+habits+exercises+pdfPDF 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_off0000ecb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104CF 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 002e735303c5893998ea840c63b583efd9273815b4101b6c004c31563576da98
font_02_sfnt_off00011d5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D5F 17008 bytes
SHA-256: 8d39c8c72a5efe472fd8670ded7fcf3bc1b137d8cd4179f31d9633a8ebae0119