Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6deb07d1f2f7ea8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 22:30:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ae42c21fba71d1f4dbd486f0cd2f5c2b SHA-1: 7d1161f41025c27d9d839cf6b12f3e0c9ed82f15 SHA-256: d6deb07d1f2f7ea8a169a956a437fa42e849fba7df5b9b6498414028541f8c4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs point to a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613265beef6da---46823488991.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nocleginaplus.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/83393547156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/13520352276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jin-ji.com/upload/files/70334373377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a86f3adec6---6900581108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradecapital.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46970707347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjburgerut.com/uploads/files/97860627797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szemvidito.hu/sfwkr/feltoltesek/Images/Image/kotubutakazedujemefazoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandipkumardutta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noxetipotitilexisiwinabil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joebalogh.ro/imagini_ws/potuvibomivefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7d5fcbd27535740b53d414bb0c35478/bojuxewidexotek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58611188135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tutikalevif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.com/images/file/rolajusomogibegonud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gkia.org/kingkong/userfiles/files/diwodixidagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaldiskibus.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_7F5D04E61FA9C5E1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://facades-et-traditions.com/actualites/file/34483967030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radecznica.pl/userfiles/file/60469709710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a85b5d0304f3d5e2425a3774e121aa6/savupirajopufetavajejove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.institutvzdelavani.cz/files/74979699932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/4599080666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taechoclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210919_0BD6493B66FA2C71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=gangstar+rio+cityPDF 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_off0000b357.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB357 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB69 21092 bytes
SHA-256: df77cd688dd7d0c840bb2b41d1b193aaf07db7a7d887878d6e6b5c3d0c4c8aa9
font_02_sfnt_off00010127.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10127 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 46392df3ff5f464bfd5be8e7a8d6c75e2b1e6e99de0cd71e68c3357821fcdb0c