Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6677c74796c89e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-10-04 08:10:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 7a941607c831ed8d2f94765b2745dad9 SHA-1: d124036907aea4559078b706229780ed47d3f3dc SHA-256: c6677c74796c89e9925f7e4bd891ef62426a01ddab53a5aaa89283c49948dff8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics strongly suggest it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://magnanelli.com/userfiles/file/58373405505.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://misterholidaysanprisco.it/userfiles/files/jisuxuvasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centonze-vini.com/userfiles/files/64608130026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compsult.net/userfiles/file/71502934526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungotodungha.com/img/files/sevumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210918_120851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limadelimon.com/images/file/406703222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/73438620536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecrivains-consult.fr/easyonline/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19412531950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profitoolinfo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9469606978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c58ca168ef---sajegobilexipuluvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ispartaprefabrik.com/ckfinder/upload/files/42719746503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/39197970855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/75734850663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t7mjcb7767sv1m57gkeuvhtbng/saxuxodutudusaxosozopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemtron-vostok.ru/media/file/guvixamadepesekusarujek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aesg2edcv.handylover.com/upload/files/boxerepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141b7d1019c1---jojupufuxeviguju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handinhand-daycare.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gafotugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasymusic.it/userfiles/files/16154021829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--rssx31a7tec6p.com/upload/userfiles/files/20211002191413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goacetours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4674476497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/biwigix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=kylie+jenner+realizing+thingsPDF 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_off0000ae62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE62 10564 bytes
SHA-256: e97d5ff087539c14a5dbe6517fb3d6d38bae36a691cc7a29902b14f2e487534d
font_01_sfnt_off0000c663.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC663 15596 bytes
SHA-256: d27f1aa722ae5fbf8707ee18676c93918a4311110628ce935a32fce1237e08d9
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED99 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1