Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6a188561cc3969b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-08-14 00:50:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: c442d8c22b213d28e7ede22a23c2ad83 SHA-1: df9290feae9c031403110d701202c8afb18b292f SHA-256: f6a188561cc3969b6fa8282007cd32abc9032ede19e31ef5772a399f9735bf0f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as a lure to download further malicious payloads, consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/45283044303.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/875e7a08860ff2ef72be8dcc4be32b8f/52602189973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champaigncursillo.com/userfiles/file/18832650789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0sujbgjoq7e2l44po59hud2bb2/84456322292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/jezisamademorewidisitize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/rabamijogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090840e9cf90---zuvetopilab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7c34e6e06---73190458991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/somolidedosufijeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liftsystems.ro/LiftFiles/file/54287778984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/bizefezofoxovipuwivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bdd4a6539---xizudukobipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2e61db5c8e---gufixuxawuvunirex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d3d61f4c5---paduxomulixoxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9sjs4s3vvalr3v1dcvcppl3c5j/mezut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhshf.de/File/juzisexolosofazave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3biqsr850c92nr89k76v6aco41/42250730272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-pro.com/userfiles/files/52521808079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/lofiposusapimovegakazika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc53577349f---buzowebus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandientuchinhhang.com/upload/files/97844466909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae898e79c42---jaburuvajasoxufojug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e358c5a69---6916985396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8343af3c8f---lajaligunojanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7375eaf148dd805d55936e267b944958/23386742593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=what+should+your+hcg+level+be+at+4-5+weeksPDF 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_off0000f2ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FF 11288 bytes
SHA-256: afe597c2c6e9e72666952a20faa1cbdd7c05c8d51fac39673178d2eec331a8a1
font_01_sfnt_off00010dbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DBC 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 096ef78698ee989f576e368e2da02da2fce68a8672cae7523005993e35d0b546
font_02_sfnt_off00013a7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1