Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6f2e41d718d4c17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-04 14:58:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2d47b30354df65f87ce2347b7dd92cb6 SHA-1: 859323adae553fd03f096749cea309e7986ba40a SHA-256: d6f2e41d718d4c177a122d473961c9246379e6251d824cc559d4035f3e992911
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36981076766.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/29064919670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metaglas.kr/userData/board/file/bumusabapekagijenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/xamilodijinikevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b806202131e---20697274985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8807e6cc64---32306939848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.com/files/files/99635738102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c233cf4d6---wunofop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/popuwulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af51d8295d---bidirerawereloba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6abecc9c545a51a028c674879c7b9146/33334091830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1k4tsm0hfqqptbsn59j0v7mr0i/vemadonelejilen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/vodaxapadigesuxarolog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d13614c8a82b8aa74a03d5dd6cb5730b/tonozezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/xenavow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catedralirodahaz.hu/data/editorfile/15451482095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeight.net/UserFiles/File/lejajofavexoxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4279e05134---zobudenusulimojajujup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jerseybankruptcylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sejebikutidunulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/73473308596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7821978861---ritadep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+join+bernat+blanket+yarnPDF link annotation
    • https://www.unimedbelem.com.br/painel_template/assets/global/plugins/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/gubajefezof.pdfIn 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://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_off0000eff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001080b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1080B 17404 bytes
SHA-256: 21671a426f925b122df390855a2a8df0ca274d90f1339f7b0fe8556b4f27c80a
font_02_sfnt_off000135d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135D5 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 1e67331fc63a7155779fd6addd84ba202278f88b99516308b73eb67f31b42ed8