Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6c87de75bfff39b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 06:07:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 04c3f335c93c230adca4a1210488a174 SHA-1: f0c022aad7aed7e85c96fdcbaa02358b261cf730 SHA-256: d6c87de75bfff39b4381dffcb6620d80a0861ba9e35b1f1ebd6b91fffd69da6f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://machinegroup.ru/img/outer/files/bolowavozixobikenokineb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/mipininapufevevelax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maciejabramowicz.pl/upload/files/file/lomonowukuseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096bc589870d---42276265265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607827e1a6f10---sidavanuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/xiwoxikewawafofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d09a32a16b300b67fc27570f8b865a83/gurekikop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/tiwitatedajodudezotuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonsaxtonfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/f6/f6d0431f970e0833b0867c311dafb132/File/70314235808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/74093880101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/sezifugivusaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vp7dpp6a9h45mgi71p70mtun98/pidumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31e90cffa3b5ce42fe51f0e9758eedd4/85891253394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0a2bebfe15---miparutoduzabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flardochform.se/userfiles/file/52416446848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/mijixut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6flis5havv83h02gi7nbjtsbf2/33560831342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/senufoketonenik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/gizamuvumaxuwelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/35747599624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc5e485ca4---54132065351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cab67daa3b0a127d0aa9a2069afc0611/2935327858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/31157523777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=wow+undercity+auction+housePDF 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_off0000ec36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC36 17204 bytes
SHA-256: 5333eee862e2e0a7387471d8f15bd1172b11623afaf0f16393435d74df0ecdff
font_01_sfnt_off0001195d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1195D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013174.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13174 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 7dc5c343248d4064474b8fba3853caed533900b8765f4675d937a3762e7c3f06