Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e00ec51ebf3e390…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:52:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: fda32e8366ed3019763f7a4322bda3c6 SHA-1: d4aedd5626f3eda983d9ec6a68176242c9f6ae41 SHA-256: 6e00ec51ebf3e390ad655a7ef15632d7d250e393db3269a7363fd930a0d45437
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The PDF's content, though heavily obfuscated in the provided excerpt, likely serves as a lure to trick users into visiting these malicious URLs.

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://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ba96a0e9197b3e0fa7f60e32ed64c49/tonupoxegurogupitujaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15e5005d2b---41211455679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecda59f3e5f274950a387e4c791eae38/7259740163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079008669fb3---vebetizevegulejejoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39pp5coo6clhbrfmo71g9i0ju7/tufukemefowokesuzifalet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc20888b67---nubifubaparebumipigiroxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1kg3cnq99aft7ljlgra4it50be/fewukujaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambalatender.com/upload/files/51867153897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marmaraisg.com/images_upload/files/23635602332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/68476688624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kammatrans.com/userfiles/files/fuwutadew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/26125948754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whitefamilyreunion2020.org/clients/4/4c/4c64578d40ee165aaf486c9a1ef3309b/File/46057262601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiaato.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210713_7FC1AF74652A0B74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/62372493165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungland.net/uploads/image/files/jasowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58d082fdd0845be5970aca61468c3c06/51936067112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/sisukub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81mrak9ig117nrlobvcacs8913/dibojowako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/095a2a272d8815d530671a8d0f09bfbf/kewozatixut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/16280176812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6a98228bf62d0434f99a3056c6c76c0/zunufejiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/15044320683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=nta+net+management+study+material+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_off0000b7b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7B4 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 6931e84cf22fae93782634411fd141f066effe144c17942f42c11cb56b4b9543
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0BC 16052 bytes
SHA-256: ee80b90d81c7b242a1d14e5c6573b2a846407cf48bb2b571906f8dc42e338fbb
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1