Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6103bee142b03cdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:45:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ae536a8952eac8f937dcdef718727ea3 SHA-1: ae337a4a92ffc821d1b2355f5ee370eba1f96770 SHA-256: 6103bee142b03cdf13f40cd0a7d7ef5a10d8ed3635aa5682e834d0b39d97e523
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a lure to redirect users to malicious content, potentially for phishing or further malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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=enron+the+smartest+guys+in+the+room+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160919c933e2c5---doriwefibifela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toromecanicorodeo.com/files/vagare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cb85e0ebf496012fb91fcb7fd343950/85910766688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/23516953860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/fimavekapokuwafapixenevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f35b6d855c482aca3a616c661f7cd109/28643760079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vendsol.com/userfiles/file/muvabumefosilevubutijumez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gumberryoleschool.com/clients/33891/File/mebinirozeretirozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinieurope.com/userfiles/files/gobekekoruvemurusogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3f61e5658---71757801052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098550c40594---luxowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d19d5d0cf22---ginasewuboxikukewovosij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.info-service.com.tw/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lomul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9993a537e2d509724a127bbf45030cc0/xagubida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ov86h4md6jcl8qd53es5chd872/gulewodenubomabok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae44b220f2---82368277954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15772050c5364061beedb7bd6b30ae1f/wezexuwuxider.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed876d549b5---32000693517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kssi.ir/public/userfiles/file/gomumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/066562b0a55be320b7b9e8ec064b0af8/80292554331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/44453382826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obrienbuilders.com/userfiles/file/rigazamaginuborigok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/41531381579.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_off0000e862.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE862 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010079.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10079 11096 bytes
SHA-256: ad59497a7b240bc5f7f7fb12483ae285838d784cae27f1c65694ec581dc69050
font_02_sfnt_off000119fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119FE 18040 bytes
SHA-256: 1c6ac1a93094fb3826dc03691fb4a37a8861c4fbaec1e98980ffe8fff3b040e2