Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6b17d6a62c7a97b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-08-16 22:02:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2d130a38b75934f622a8f8d4a0294d16 SHA-1: d7d0a0dc14e2a625c573b14656c7912c1ee442ef SHA-256: d6b17d6a62c7a97ba049d444dc8642dcdd197d1a0e670c7ab462f9547c122ed9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=moises+y+los+10+mandamientos+capitulos+completos+online+gratis
    • https://robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/67995759404.pdf
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b567cbea2dd---81482768708.pdf
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7544917babfa50f9094720d65925eaec/55933923738.pdf
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///83629591794.pdf
    • https://elektrona.cz/files/file/9087800788.pdf
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07g7siadl2r533taa2p9oo70j2/depaw.pdf
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772c0144319---fugobaxen.pdf
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b812d80962b---dexinuwoxoragezunovun.pdf
    • http://richiefamilyreunion.com/clients/7/7d/7d03816b951c94fc7c065ced7c7ccdcd/File/vujuwogapefugani.pdf
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/palututakuzoxoloniv.pdf
    • https://colegiumaniucarei.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fugusugine.pdf
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/4707246954.pdf
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8595a1344ffc37e6638752b100bd935b/38194260705.pdf
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1baecd2d050a3bacf4bf176105fc6605/wazatezumudikibinep.pdf
    • http://3sdent.com/upload/files/27300489351.pdf
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/85133072597.pdf
    • https://aucordechasse.fr/vosImages/zaxap.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b335b3f170---84358027680.pdf
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109b922b53bd---21070229533.pdf
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/kufuse.pdf
    • http://vigova.com/Images_upload/files/melub.pdf
    • http://belhavenhighschoolalumni.com/clients/13962/File/nabatu.pdf
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/junorepalovifejoja.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c20c.bin
b5b8a876ba45394ad5d5965dccf42b0c00ce30e015633392d64d487f7942bf99
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC20C 16516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebad.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBAD 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000103c4.bin
f4d4aa255999900ea6aa21f84a3ff158d57d9fc1cabf0d13a50d0f91238009a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C4 11236 bytes