Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db6671edbdad267c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-07-09 02:08:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7eca9ab22f99c162488c78eab15af037 SHA-1: 5b4853ad107b09ab0ba34645821e2177582f0dcc SHA-256: db6671edbdad267c896630b488dde016ef886ced8096cee28c67bcdb18bfe150
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a redirection mechanism to deliver malicious payloads or phishing content to unsuspecting users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850b172fb7e---rilefulolaxulizopopef.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/bisidudaxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985b8d4c729---47999513918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d61d369d9---24347365236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbe982ae4619035f6c710363d2fa2210/lobemivesonidininuzuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/10184820133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33f8469478f801d165d394d2faef6936/jijeravif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b02d7095d2f---43092657579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/xugutajazuraxirekobekagil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881dda3acd5---78649932723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janatalnajaf.com/basefile/janatalnajafcom/files/27111031330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f910d94bd5---64489896762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/suvovowikeweremadav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hp37g8q87dliqtshof97iovd0/10904921558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d3d6b0fee---walidupitiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a3d07a32e3---8868450618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcresthigh1971.com/clients/9/9f/9fbf9047a6869172a982db6f42f05a9a/File/teraxanawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1t1b06utjkqiovk21dh2fvf97/tavaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7267f45de657099f6e77c32a374ecce/zifuzopazagelimofobezirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/volatavemijuxovej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvuuvsb613l6jannsuhrfp3pu3/gilabazixagadisox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/narizulibofeboserakebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/xodojudafex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609495c549fda---70399563210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=two+guys+and+a+pizza+piePDF 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_off0000bd99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD99 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5AB 16976 bytes
SHA-256: 7324a8b65c21d2eb2c8b0ac700b2e33bacedaae1ec25ae634137c30db9864d2a
font_02_sfnt_off000101b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B0 10648 bytes
SHA-256: da1806aff0ea8d1cd29696ffb3890da37bc78d05ee5e2b32d98255a4d815aca8