Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6f1b670d9592fb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 19:59:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 412db898802e5029cfe36f4bda74501e SHA-1: 122127c57c4b491266952f3faa6fe821f24a6c5a SHA-256: c6f1b670d9592fb56b27befabce4c443866fa618f9e9a964ba98d5367fc7333c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Several URLs point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host or distribute malicious files. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond what the heuristics suggest.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/coqetl4skua4nlk21das696ntn/mixoxejirudapejoran.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b1cbaaae7---79998619590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/lanuwanozuzufujitupidime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92fc667cd---wasegodugaxopijiziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/sumojilajawewibubitapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/82432605485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastera-mix.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49019959131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/janolikosidonofozega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d20762f43f---67911639104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073833265aa9---veguzek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070427a390d9---jetopawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/kelojaxoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607632de2e7df---pekupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5aa3570e8---8111215406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetplus.com/userfiles/files/14320687396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/97827847211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjamsul-hidajat.id/ck_uploads/uploads/files/29494321589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecowaytechnologies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31526600069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d56ce6ae8c5---11574915150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoanalyze.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/080d977036af6a41bdf51c1db5169162/42122374980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/35993063298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fcb89ea78---44408623295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210616034920858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080520fa83d5---pexuxadiliwilufuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skf07do87eng36mtc771imdmuj/9417442147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+stand+chapter+summariesPDF 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_off0000f36a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF36A 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 54bf92302ae9f6579de72b6b375f5bb33f1734d36a2c82f8db1f2a247b2cdfae
font_01_sfnt_off00012219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12219 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A30 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 673c7f0cee43c1afa4e7b9d158e471962489add9df536da75462bbdb321209a4