Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ae6e8b864bed26d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:12:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9eb33ce5a9a3dca0f15c329182e47978 SHA-1: ac10a81978c873ae045d94b5c531fef4cea1c3db SHA-256: 6ae6e8b864bed26d81d9aa764609b30fb82dce56326712b4450bb417ff698743
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites, some of which are hosted on disposable domains or use SEO manipulation tactics. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mfnh5gtbd67vi9b8s04kr0ai05/62345625756.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kolkandkolkdesign.com/site/data/ws/files/jagudurofulobapumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a932e3bed19---13735977962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611841fa86534---fuxawibasekipokemoned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610533a2c3271---limeredovugurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099225b28de6---46079092238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9b14c8732---kitovaretesozirebalanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/xojufugegalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd8b53ea7e---sipuzazawajorawonor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanilkwanla.com/uploads/files/rekuwipozivuwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a413ddd25e2---rofimubebiledaxapajodesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/71093784735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e28b76bb9c45b0c4b8f2b1bdf35c201/fovanovowebogusurosizun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5ab8285ad96454709aff867396e1dad/fulolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.com/userfiles/Files/68832421903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/kebafejawidakodabenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/6941284321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb3af4174c7d07b6aeef90ce46e31b0e/lisewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shlawllc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kamujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa4b07b335---duvibuzufizagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southafricapools.com/contents/files/86381025076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5557380f335e89041b99ff754922499/35952768337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgaspcsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nanagagasifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/vasadadibidapuvur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078fe7d71161---zexulebokevuniwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=david+copperfield+charles+dickens+libro+pdfPDF 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_off0000d156.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD156 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 666da0ab94edf270f84fa1610775c0bc9b8dfd2180c48acec294944afa7a19f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA4F 16956 bytes
SHA-256: 95ed54cab57f2179ab34e2a1c9a3435ea969775fa93ed813fe309e6fbc9b1db1
font_02_sfnt_off00011642.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11642 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1