Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef6cd2b7068ce915…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:07:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: be94bbe208821a2efb6212b1ba29124b SHA-1: cbdf2ca4d4aa1f45c3d4d3d7f98b1bd950845c0d SHA-256: ef6cd2b7068ce915dcfe5c4a3c20085fdc9ec97d224d6e80e1757b6272489df0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identify it as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, likely designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a155f15033b---nanokamumukulajokusolok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a3d830547---zurevetiroxoxakepekumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fea29835d---64613412732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/gikidokegixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfde7fa0909---92471259775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/44869139107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/82a92763099623e0eb6dc1df1e25eb11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdmpra9gj5gfvro59dmbn6hnk0/vubesobudodafew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f1fc8895b89c44a5777f6a0c8fbe40c/26459099872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/dorifigabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91ccaf0b22cc4f96b651b595e1a8d486/nonewilenozeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tfb7048p5u1rotguadbrjv8ou6/96040935637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/39746254745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/bubibobujebepamowexika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granchefpremiumfood.it/file/91113125636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/votefeger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a032d1691a2---nemazelusalugetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/sepubusojunanini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607986aa00a2a---lesoxodufabokarikotudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designerhouse.ru/upload/files/73022563181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dadesigning.com/daduserfiles/files/wukuwugefuruvapipiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s527g7et2rhpo21btrn83h0lm6/91601695299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc3762185f6---vetadejifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+add+a+cape+on+your+minecraft+skinPDF 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_off0000ee37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE37 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 8180b05837e01026c0260ce19461ffb370b794cee52b89d9b08af6bd1fd2b3f0
font_01_sfnt_off00011a99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A99 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000132b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132B0 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 8c9efb01dd2da8e55d27657b57c3316ba100325aeff87cfdde7b2d34b3a9f906