Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6f9d2252aa0a392…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-06-11 04:02:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a29977461cfbeeff74e21c0cd6eed6d6 SHA-1: 9bf8b0be4c65c52a245f1655183f1c432ad01f66 SHA-256: c6f9d2252aa0a3920508c0036d70b66a9c211f6944c3560638941a155074ca25
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document appears to be a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely serving as a lure for users seeking software activators. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content or downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=windows+7+activator+daz+loader+2.2+2+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6be6a4e41998857693c31b06b876b86c/28712019595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/67847019182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voyagerf.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14f0e8c464ef9a612d48abc9536ef574/vadido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ejr5lehg4t2fiilh03ijovki2/ruvivibemetado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4f5278c6c---70665446541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ml3bnte85j8l3clkbr31rnici7/94218510736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0c78a53f5---25473567353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1igdhldhs3681l4o6n051qoej2/65332140489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43a83514a847ae0b5311047b91d4dfac/xebebafodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/802b2108b2cb2076f3b387fee18b0904/gixijupufuvapenogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61cfe45943---jodebilidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/pujipetabotekorefoxoravub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5991935d0d---fojawexogalavuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988a5cf18a6---takubeladabipomutifux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec4dd3475e212163ce4793cf1bf7b314/losalajoporogaragopajuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instant-image.net/UserFiles/Site/File/sulewuzavivamipijozibiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igigeothermal.jp/userfiles/file/wusopafibatewebizeneti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CC 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 9a8fafa149e3e6dd84984f9b09cc6f8017590c9cfcf0139d5d215d262435aeca
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5E 10192 bytes
SHA-256: e5f3b8beafc2d0362639cd257eb3bb66a4238f96ac18e92f25442ed9a8c7efb1