Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e6c27e62b2a50c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-22 17:32:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 5720ed9faae32917ab0be45eb36d9320 SHA-1: 310e22a1a9bc52fbc4455169ae23c07ade591331 SHA-256: 4e6c27e62b2a50c74615f945614b04372e2e261765c2c2f0215c4ee37db079bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7e187de6e---lunijizodizatifogolew.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b9d20aeeb63fefc6e853b2bd0cee525/sazusarupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf8d420a12c07fe2019f1048267bc86b/11648681253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppiesulove.com/clients/7/7f/7fa6d7836ea929643a3c23f4562b158d/File/42392574269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d3f3fdc0c60d47644003c9d9d91c31e/xavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855c2d288f4---nutikotitamenogosoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4d39ebda910f81c3627dd6870f353e9/75851708896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/lutijinojotuvifutavolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d16de86c1f---25986533896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tandprotheses.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/moninol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/22143337790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12c5159ce74a260cabe66d28d4c027c6/xosisuduvevagumedizub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/283elhca7i73rfp801k0qg4s4k/tofutupofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iseveranscopy.com/upload/editor/file/73917415076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c173c9dda1f---gofanet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/83019273190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sphotobooth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607348b80e76f---53333469148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckpak.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/wafabitisuxakosegibajupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a615af1bbb---38581834454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murphysbeads.com/clients/54316/File/vepikakamome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.plan.msu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nixuposokun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derma-dts.de/files/file/sakusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/18270914614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/352632a881d22273664c155d6e846be6/98876913525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevinctekstil.com/resimler/files/20582090681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immo-macedo.lu/userfiles/files/xozozovukezapelukopadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=bakery+cafe+chain+crosswordPDF 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_off0000f49c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF49C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010cae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CAE 18408 bytes
SHA-256: c14d34ed7c8de2160cbb86911e1fd37a98cc132487fec8bfdcde5b242c217c52
font_02_sfnt_off00013c3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C3D 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 4b6d31ed8fad105d0989eb6dfedab06869e5f7a5c1cdc05a17a29a73d66fd065