Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6a8848b2b7646c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 20:47:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 417b4f8ece89e1db191277b840ba9951 SHA-1: 1e238abdb03e159c6469e2206210b5655a2504bf SHA-256: c6a8848b2b7646c1784935cdc1bfe8a09134ea89e8f81563af18a111b6b1061b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs point to a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+equation+for+the+plane+through+the+points PDF link annotation
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab927b74232---98678953877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingdiy.cc/uploadfiles/files/20210602_225532_1555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0rtempebo94thjhm00vuakmi8/napivasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/60948072766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/4762175895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b9ec35b243ae86eb20b354b9b777314/ponot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/159a63e9c970ac852ef725fdcd950067/48081969597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/pogerefopevasofike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65d566f70bf7f916c5419cf5d8fd5dce/sizeturigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e112427f143aa311ffcb503cfaac154/dojaxasanufev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b8b3edc63---23428691306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce4d8cb4ff9---13073204513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/kimunepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasanisports.com/files/guxotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g0oin2udk6gv4au93ttvldcelj/82021865998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/begawewiwaloli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuhs1981.com/clients/8/82/82ca37c076ec4232796cb58ed009bb3a/File/51940975728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71dub9la0e1nhtdrs9dr5qnha9/gaxuruvemokowaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d64b9e4e99---deboduweronefixag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/xujekelem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/tunilikip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secohthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/riforoxiloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bb53e23bf2---43206149725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ef39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF39 17348 bytes
SHA-256: f99bcf7c710aff145ae4fc002d174d923c439e8d80f6e3d8ad227c9847feb470
font_01_sfnt_off00011c6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6A 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 0eee0397727f127dbd2faa0510d40bb0dd28536b96be95d55f92e3a89ed2f9f3
font_02_sfnt_off0001354c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1354C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1