Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de6cefc78590e930…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-08-29 08:16:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f25401ab80a64a5fdca3a8846d1302d9 SHA-1: 6c8251e22add8be5f829371986cee1482be31270 SHA-256: de6cefc78590e930a39f8fc3e162fe302bbc2f4bb60765260b6535ab816e6c9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for distributing malicious content or phishing lures. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6b7267b64b---kidiwuvowipejolosaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32a39d407a---75361173577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/botabagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a613b4307dc---24182543765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/11064664120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o0listf444eu9kr8qq56da835k/86666103672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sindafaz.com.br/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vulomolufupefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cipetbhopal.com/webimg/files/29772297407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.lu/userfiles/file/53183531730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pf5boo9ugrummk7m1qbqausk84/zilevexefuvazebifuwosabev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8q2pkabni3m718gqnm67dbs2p8/56032026836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c4dalbs3p56ugg8coi5nfc1kr/kerewirewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/82650766131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ppuv9a2m8i2vcmlb9qf9ckg3mv/20709331119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f22a6c7fb---47945503426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210813_469284CC20344B8D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winfielddeli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rozemotakomuwomuxegiginen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/9869887083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d664b0054a---44453620967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e03ab5b3f---lifela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2198c4359011c4eadccbf34b86a975e1/93245608713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eichler-kammerer.de/73414622150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/bufabikawogezogigepave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmvormrjo1ga7m9jof0rou0aa2/77752711071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nabisori.com/userfiles/file/tirixezarivodezopeteza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=to+trade+in+spanishPDF 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_off0000c6ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ded1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED1 10408 bytes
SHA-256: f525a59797fbdc60ca6f6c703699d667fca46de6821ef54309ccaba0b950f28e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f64a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF64A 17572 bytes
SHA-256: 389fdb0a7fbc8d906230d2eb07ba2f52d51ca50f6b74b3419df092670936ca93