Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6a5afc3a471a9d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:24:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 5d09414e877c81993ab9f72bf6ac4101 SHA-1: bbd5b94800d3440459c0bc3b03a004852d93071e SHA-256: f6a5afc3a471a9d908804db9aeac8c749131c0b0978ad471f098c9b0ee0968d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the use of compromised WordPress sites for hosting PDF files, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised CMS upload directories reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715d357295d---86593819855.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/japulapuzofifosetip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/xalulaxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/nonezusiponebiveva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szrealty.net/uploadpic/2021-5/file/2021050821521373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa11bb1aaef---65076194923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/021bbed47b3d38347c3cf9f11a0a20fa/58769567827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/20882075770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c031b0d91---torumura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00204a77324fd02bdaa0dedb3051d867/nabidugominuwisimuxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ngqn0kkaqiourt2ihr0sqf3hpl/82459074109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609443bf28299---vetujoforuzebazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koryosushi.com/uploads/files/sunutitaxuxuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090979186faa---16386201019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e880eb4429---24173712068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8bd2080d430f053074a928dea8ae205/zuxurivamegesakuvalerubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15cda051bb---mokolapojagokijugulobaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c549e6cb975---tasologurosenarijewejutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4bc9382d1---loxemilededakixagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f4daaf06f2c77d6482db8e047e9c680/gelafunudawobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2ve8qev1q0k5eqh13hn09ghb3/35883379870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-skawina.pl/app/webroot/media/files/10091554089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/tebiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=yummy+chinese+food+great+neckPDF 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_off0000bf7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF7B 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 0687597a2930e0da1450bc8c1049977d71c8ceb4c97e9dd6c7c68f1a7eef3245
font_01_sfnt_off0000d943.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD943 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f155.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF155 16580 bytes
SHA-256: 86f4b427720c0a65e80d452024afe79a57b9cf2cec4734276e8c3af0712d6537