Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6f4807ca3d698e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-22 20:22:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 12f45ab78b6587b8c2f7cad5275ba085 SHA-1: d4f75d599e7dbbe5ecc015b5e1c2a12d948fc583 SHA-256: b6f4807ca3d698e7843625bb047d6be414741ae4dd6782caf4dcdfc2ee403843
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or exploit kits. The presence of multiple embedded URLs, many hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, reinforces the phishing or redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://texmet.pl/userimages/file/8374506744.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://veivel.com/userfiles/file/mixapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c3a4c0e3fcf260ecb98c88aa3d671dc/fuzolowupizutivasuvuxotux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6707397055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a8ae18288---34494191626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yameitecl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210720_010649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/82839783752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784e5c00efc---konur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f74a1c6ea---zejetal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qq6lfvfm9p1cpqc6gulnkunv7/rekikut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e2735c1d39ca3bea9d475c85b0b3078/15770965149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc4e01b029---najefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9d53d71ce---javurepeputeloxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ausafe.net/images/art/files/63714399512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astefin.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96439347251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edeea1a5fc6---64391436305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbondcorten.com/attachment/file/d258a62a2f190d44ad13dfce31faa415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drr7et6r8to9k0qi5fih24o0fg/21271845656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/rusezadod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805cba4cc45---duwosejupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/133573d747b2c875c4c017da928d94c1/wirabojapidazoguxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/kimutuwinosojofilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiophotosfashion.it/userfiles/files/waruretoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lctrading-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45512931880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc86c43d240---17957779329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa299690721---9767684814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=linux+tutorial+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000ecd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD7 10436 bytes
SHA-256: eae0261f75c3364e927c64533081aa28abbc125833980e4a91ecbd61252fb03f
font_01_sfnt_off0001049e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1049E 16908 bytes
SHA-256: 6dff532e6871ead52a68ccf2a3d20958dc56e43dd52e97b5656e2dc184968569
font_02_sfnt_off000130ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1