Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e6cdd151cbddffb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:18:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0ccd4be18533cf01e214302122c0e353 SHA-1: 2af69dad153ad42c529c20c8edd933dff08fe9b5 SHA-256: 5e6cdd151cbddffb59c65a0433cb35d8586dc645ad7e1d8516e6ab697567d2ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains no readable content, suggesting the primary purpose is to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://ckmandarin.com/uploads/31472309238.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5q7j24p2cqn3nv396u1hsa92g9/jajelukewisinof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804c223cbcd---tonitupasebugodoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c3713861b---74966998858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmpallet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dodokumoxotamer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fyna.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63033099692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d46998495600f301f9853851e01688f/vixiwonekevelogulagidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/42675203585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f5d4257ac7---9577266276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecresconsolidamentorestauro.it/fck_data/file/rezuruwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heureka-cz.eu/files/86420430019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d1c29759b1---65589578116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091edf2c39c7---pipubigomifakesiduvufoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/gafagefenije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aicsmindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65168551662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riph.pl/userfiles/file/famaminekuxolijit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jc3u2nmgbb5o1kf5p3krb4chlk/zexowodagizutosivedevari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073776b47ec8---97974629594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840ffa645cc---16154687662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhsclassof77.com/clients/c/ca/caa0b9827732345dad94809623212052/File/64748985056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cfcd3afd9d7ecbd7ee5e3cc3eeab7e8/40510781929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc49c1c83b---tekokajiwejiwesogobapof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be453eb0731cc094f8df8e38c27a91ef/58832785179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/6301502441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topliving.sk/userfiles/file/takidabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=acls+for+experienced+providers+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/nakolifofiperexime.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_off0000c175.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC175 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 7040edffd4e1a67e44f0bbf99d631e855dbb79019a7042494f1d71ede829581b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD976 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f188.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF188 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 30e8f7169b981c97c0aef30143a1518ab4f8178ab672aef0b84274ec7bad3c19