Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e6ea0fb5b0b25c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 15:53:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 13957be6ad0e9d272c47556e546fa7e0 SHA-1: 3300d378507ec86d5f40e994bbeb8ffde791065e SHA-256: 0e6ea0fb5b0b25c6476be61dfa4d9c479d38ac46398421dd4f8ae6b363683448
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as link farms. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this PDF as malicious, specifically flagging it as a phishing or trojan distribution mechanism. The presence of multiple links to potentially malicious content suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=double+ended+queue+in+c+using+arrays PDF link annotation
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/kafarexij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609411e95041c---4438078199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834e5a892de---54691702174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/65162761019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmoto.cz/obrazky/file/51305511957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac549d213c3---42016336968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dietacud.eu/upload/file/24723677776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/gajibadevafabuzipaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsite.vn/uploads/files/55999919320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecba67ac3c---tifiwakoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/50534433186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/deborusalerekujoleguki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/2647688110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096bc650a78d---kolekewema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0213d861c1dcacd6aa69bf519c95053/fufulabifokimafoxudogevuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8b6038a56---sumotepokolomag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072deee9a834---55083678348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0af1d72125fb7a0e264981d6cb1b7073/donixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/kezadedumobujozeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21be2dcdab51f2b13382e6d997304385/72672212286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurolocal.info/sites/default/files/images/file/lunetejezojokuzitik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d57a05532b---vetepibivewexoduwepagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3creldo32o3lk7m0hck9ktdfe/52878372473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/4793588163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2fe59de030---mukalumidirodufikov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703f2711299---weleza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ed6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010583.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10583 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 9bee8c102f5c12a5afa7b4d8354fec3f90d0913d483e8896c8948bb58bf77a10
font_02_sfnt_off00011e72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E72 17968 bytes
SHA-256: 871e013ff26ed6bf04481796988919214461eeaf52b97b6c07d7ca536a324cf8