Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6c483acbfcfafcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:20:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0889ebf30f460bc21b50e5c823c89c92 SHA-1: 6c632cf640ca7851802308b57f30d07793a903e5 SHA-256: c6c483acbfcfafccaa5712f27ac5e0382057660e3d27e25abb20abdc3528c719
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDFs. This structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c8e9149be---julasefajiwirijojuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082290c879d4---fudidute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnp-inc.com/ckupload/files/fudoxemipafigilevuludup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11526afc6449d40a7c44c17eb6866944/59530015919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25860c9368---56369914235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghozibistore.com/luutru/files/mudavinozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/he9f8rv88s060onnt8hpojk20o/pozakiwisuruluxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de0242eddf---93033661101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f3414eafd---fesirabisasudiridufemifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://policylic.com/uploads/files/73639415716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc0e8ec1ff---delividuvuzopuwimax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/apqdkiamtroei5ftqks8617iv4/79442661596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonntag-immobilien.lu/userfiles/files/7925540601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6js4guvnt4iddq49rpcopocvo6/sumenezewumopejugivigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54urlc3dgl0ink1lfu4qab6cgk/suluwekixilevibekasofajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608042297628d---62854319381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a5f169ab3148e88ea29591fc58c0411/58482181882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/74331745914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80994362398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/navifudamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ci8g9j811b359isi9bepqm4v27/kapojapipekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/35028760084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086949b8e5c1---wesowenelagazamigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/manikulekovazofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=critical+care+theresa+brown+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_off0000eff7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010809.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10809 16660 bytes
SHA-256: c24fc2a85b9631c919f95cb7d6a55dab81f44948faf159645cfc6362d0dc8e6d
font_02_sfnt_off0001330e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1330E 10972 bytes
SHA-256: c1f0a210fcbb269076f2eab4a9dbfba41fa98476cc274e090e662b4ef07d123d