Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6a7d74ece71cfa3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-25 05:25:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a53e3ce915d35cbd17642612d1d30701 SHA-1: bc126e3b917cb191a14f2005068d10c8d9d48ddc SHA-256: f6a7d74ece71cfa32affa6168be9381a998306d019ce11723be98cc3e21222b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a lure to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f4830666a8---vasidatavuranirogus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360dbd7c259---81661840964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbeb66bf89275359e6625af055640cb8/4261778624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiciliani.eu/userfiles/files/10061152877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fonebupazidegapup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mondoacquapiscine.com/userfiles/files/bomevujewidonilolajojal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wm-meyer.de/meyer/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66277154724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71242525421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.flamanville-76.fr/upload/file/sorexakotev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linza-market.ru/upload/files/sazonotud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/paratomemitupaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enerjimakine.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/bixunixajodufumalexoxekeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents/files/47656957140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f697e04611---79632656856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140009d67ee5---nuxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevasilicones.in/userfiles/file/80787429807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613011825fe3d---buguludasapelogorufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crcnueva.naturasoftware.com/uploads/images/files/mofawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/5530968528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demo755.webbazaar.com/uploads/47207155446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/pezefijagana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/24530349039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.com/contents/files/pigutopozeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holdemigny.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9343013139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wujipacking.tw/upload/files/karikamomugifoguxofaperuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381cc0bebca---xubizebazibawomisowugemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=taken+3+game+download+apkPDF 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_off0000b413.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB413 10588 bytes
SHA-256: cb45f8a9e31dd5596bdb5062e55759e2dd59adc3b84b9bca690c885e352e0144
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC18 15600 bytes
SHA-256: 3252ab62861477d3dbee2bb971078db3077fe0b439015ea895c39ab8b047f915
font_02_sfnt_off0000f365.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF365 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1