Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6722040002e3e3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 15:13:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: aafc32e0724d9876b26878477fcd5774 SHA-1: 26eb51417e6e45ebc9b8c642ac9313ce852b2c8c SHA-256: c6722040002e3e3cec50745829ad2cdc16f14b262263db9b6156f26c1a7a9925
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous unknown URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly support a phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bebe44ad24c0924b5a784156f153eb1a/xojapixofexupuke.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/34708354010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d62240902e9---84370179542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a707e0042d---37721591649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8968be4c55---powigatuguliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakianco.ir/data/image/uploads/news/files/xopulaselepanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30ad6545cd---86670723907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/rebaganitigepowew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ir9m06m51q02mdh83bbgj5rkp/zopozefajegizagaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fkjmmljf3u6muestvtdtni7l8r/zilamuguruxukovevefubid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fgosvo.ru/files/files/fipadalimowigez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyallcanada.ca/editor_files/file/turejelagoxikoxurezidig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f7da49edbe9b15daacdfd305b055a8f/56177446164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be695fa0574---fasabot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609269d44c116---44513305810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/molexexawavebakigubup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b95d8dc2ecf---rutikivizajokobagukejofux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd11a32627---favibetitedodilixago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/ralorodaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/resolivepanivosenodeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=worcester+28cdi+compact+manualPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fce2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE2 17548 bytes
SHA-256: 9983d29b29b38fb7f7cfba9f14d16ae6439d3dfc9dc86146aee513b726603c0c
font_02_sfnt_off00012af8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF8 16192 bytes
SHA-256: 97e3f73a58ccdd4784c9ae1678d9f90717e6b6d0c87c36bf93adb8865ef65ebd
font_03_sfnt_off00014085.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14085 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 434d8db32afc01e8219626e8b33d6ee307c7f94c281991c1260241446f53915d