Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e6f0cc6adf76cc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:05:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9ad2c0de1b0307fff8c0279344f3ce29 SHA-1: 4f739136280daf44ee440a4dd34944706c9b2899 SHA-256: 0e6f0cc6adf76cc89c0147a956aaba915be550b30b68c10b0a6f4cceb2a2c908
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/rorozajizi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/em82osj8a85dq79553tq77cf49/pirolikosojitukez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e8ada0bcf---5489538645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/xavezoxudetukamowureb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://es21sys.com/userfiles/file/lokukediladoriridevog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021061403004534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historico.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojumabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e2ee0ac19---vetojalab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/72874953592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spcinternational.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71880770763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0b235dc4f6772903a11eb4f01fc79fe/fozekobawifiraxaguxonaruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/25577091772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae589eaa380---dulokemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowballet.ru/userfiles/file/3837708272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7n65qkb68ckaretjmhc0i41hp6/9215455263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa3967d51a---69295133873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cee43326e8ed254aec5796f11889ab0/23104286387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai-guesthouse-chiangmai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14780770439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/008b4e938ca3c276ef177067759fcdb3/zuwazaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39k738cv05fpeprqoqe06bepkk/xibis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caa08af81a---punigoxodagogabanilepoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/082179ac60740c0b6b13e51420073144/66625727891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qlbq82rrk7dr0gess2u09n5uf3/jelepaxuvas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=aches+and+fatiguePDF 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_off0000cb7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB7D 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 2b7e8b2970ae28477d1bf3604541287d1b73d9f9590ba1487608aeff52fc2aaf
font_01_sfnt_off0000e35e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE35E 16360 bytes
SHA-256: 73ece6277f2fc7db7f1a6a057862925c6338952647fbfe8ab0a6caf3a65f3338
font_02_sfnt_off00010d4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1