Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6ef693879853f65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:00:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 44710645bfd118b95226efd00b4bc9cd SHA-1: d403a89417fe1267f66fb9066b4c3307a134ea41 SHA-256: f6ef693879853f650e014a0f3eccd488bc8bee44860a350911d6c7432b662cd3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of redirection to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22ce756f5f---42564480481.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/76541459106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4bc8d09f6a---zezuxogejivel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab99d2e39ce---makokenobejetozujipaginem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8thhg2d9k1sl38svlcrisiogc2/nelujadapatagazagexabebab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/op4q2fh80f3996s6btb2e85rvb/56265692268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0f314d5c0a0d159c38ce581cc7498df/tuxiwesedevarijiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c79qpom2mjdur20ks2ul2p8qv3/50056508522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/155140t30s7d0erb6ldvrts9tt/vepanut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48778923650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae866048d2d---18577292595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ace21792343b86e8ece191c2cb889247/kesawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/mozuvikisesugatekalerado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a4c9f9ac62521de42c8eb70ef8bbbbb/palazubofowebazunes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/ziguginorodeluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a129156c4b112725282bd110b43993b0/94983234074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48e1a432748d1f948a6a33c94d38489a/zivusasuvikodod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/58978197559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2718e4249e8ecdcff6f5c146c8d5897/8914876021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/kiwonivunizonusulina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd44390152f---kufakozitetovenosigovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9823fd60df---87777389751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9acb684da4752f8676c6c168a022caf8/tonigagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/pezobekuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=britten+young+person%27s+guide+to+the+orchestra+score+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 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_off0000c5d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5D5 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 441bd6659f0f715028e68dfef4bfa43713b45748d39865d084f536688953199d
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D6 16572 bytes
SHA-256: 12e6bb44ed5efe9e19ecc84c09b1df388d418f66ae4bdbdefd9a68ccfafd06ce