Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e6dee1e609aed7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-06-24 01:19:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c63f018d0c20abb4e133b49cb550ba6d SHA-1: a6c916c0828f20ef37b6fed987f4fa4f7b50d506 SHA-256: 4e6dee1e609aed7e4b3265c270706a62e8c39377e4296a3adacb108816151c94
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 ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to 'wkhtmltopdf' and 'oscillating dipole radiation', which may be part of a deceptive theme. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=oscillating+dipole+radiation PDF link annotation
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56298774403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a53c992ff9f635be6df4f426dc366b25/3704625385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca1331a364---selapomowul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpc4gic7ej5jdknkhq5lromg6p/98641166769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayanairag.com/uploads/userfiles/files/rixunirowedanedaputaxogol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a40f0143ad---wemuwopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c936c9d9408---79890461514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idfv7us58gotpglfgrb460tem5/62494238566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/gagazutivididagewunod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ae52a45d1---wogodoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9d89c3908---ruvowivopilukufogapofido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c4aae258ddeb4c9273724f2af5a6ad7/fuvitawipaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a538df9c0---68922890621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/xerejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608318cf1262d---piruwuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000f2ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BA 5268 bytes
SHA-256: 4cca660191bf0c024b1e9cec222ddd35abfaf29a4630efb315609a5290701703
font_01_sfnt_off000104b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B2 13060 bytes
SHA-256: 38d5db3a59209def84d672d09811b036d6a1bad2d4ff59f12cc51a280eb0f95a
font_02_sfnt_off000131b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B2 16216 bytes
SHA-256: d89036f56add1e9f6aca4b7d3adfb0da53370fd93688ee6dc2092bfd86262994