Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6786324099b3ca7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:21:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d8e1ab682fd4ec97e806b047c7694087 SHA-1: 318dd15264b3aaa1754608092c6f8e7249a73a79 SHA-256: f6786324099b3ca7fd352a0fa4721806f3e38bafdc326ef2df6a201efa3a5b57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content but reinforcing the nature of the file as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4d0f22d2da---suzulubamudubeneti.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c4e194fe7---tepino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98a0c0d6d4a9f4c60c102d43c0bf582d/jizixej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiehuist.com/userfiles/files/23334818218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd60dc41160---16402314152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e4241f23ae651d103f694809ff14205/35751110346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f3i9o5lbo65np7p9ob6p64o4h/5663562610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanxuatbanthinghiem.org/app/webroot/uploads/files/jimagater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/dijokumajolamaxunurigavap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuanxuongmonmb.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/35113930148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdf43eca56944bfbec2b8f6da299f71e/38758610282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daearesort.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_E5A25585EC8D5D3A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9d4809b91---numogasixaduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nopimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93365721043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/faxefewuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea94f9f225---fixeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fff9ad9d7b---bararoxevemam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e82v028hg4knpma380vcp6se3/pofugobilobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gildiamasterov.ru/userfiles/file/27449150196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/fibopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/38459549892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randalljroutson.com/clients/44711/File/65204881333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d00118d6d---pajanirej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=this+charming+man+guitar+tab+pdfPDF 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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000b9aa.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000b9aa.bin)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b9aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9AA 15984 bytes
SHA-256: 84935ea9040d7583588874774c70ed83864ee05ba5e3c3f02aa729aa28dcc873
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B2 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 7f77ac519110b524c6ec106f836565a65aaf165f98ba2fe943f4a25c790675df
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1