Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a14c500c56e08e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 21:33:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 615bc92de72790e20ff3d320dbfca45d SHA-1: cbc3472b7ce36693bea995130cb114ed505a1752 SHA-256: 6a14c500c56e08e73411b7c72d7e5b8e6fbf0fb2c06e3261500ad1ab8c75b850
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to domains that are either disposable or appear to be compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms on potentially compromised sites points to an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=intense+5+minute+tricep+workout PDF link annotation
    • http://esrafisek.com/images_upload/files/vulejufugovubixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608127dcdfe98---bewetakugogalad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1dc3eb40de---69115383895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/tipogapumasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/71210374063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34390433884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37bcf8642b45a77dd8f0de5d14c89482/wugil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7m4r5ob3b6a13sn5qe9q84mv1/22363990673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd1c1563bc6a4dfffc389fd8cd095b7f/15597408827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736b2b400dd---xaxamogotugasopoginejaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b784b8e5f104af027d34f9bbf50ca1a3/68368903422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5992fe34c3dd5892fea1535bd39ba4db/81430839379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelsafeway.com/userfiles/file/82147542365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/kunibaxodejusijumej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096519d9bbf8---peduba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852c305921a---81672623904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/69071636750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1323472c58---gatomupitiwuxuworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/388c54e07566fc314bb476eaef0c8244/wepezitemuzimesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigpictureresources.com/userfilesbigpicture/file/13181477118.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_off0000e86a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE86A 16756 bytes
SHA-256: 13e08422929f483125f54066b3c2954470bb2efee704ab18a11217f02855f703
font_01_sfnt_off000113cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113CB 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 91f8af7cca9e13a1a5eb15f6649c7e47df74cccbdc6ad3e9369eaebe9669de27
font_02_sfnt_off00012c6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1