Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e10ecccaa4fc9f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:56:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6c545b434f6829bdbeb04bfb526d11df SHA-1: 0d5f592778c34d8778ac67e41239d9927c66cacb SHA-256: 6e10ecccaa4fc9f232514f14ba116b1532bd20f25d53b7782818f1cde0b321c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on potentially compromised sites, suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is leveraged to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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 http://bakerfamreunion.com/clients/1/13/13be4b03bdabdd3a133c3ee64ed6201b/File/6685640562.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/nudavuvabalefovadapabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/29072940871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://888spirits.com/userfiles/file/sitisamelad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isleford.com/filespath/files/20210825162656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091049cd681d---risetukagugiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/939f8d081742dc14e394a7853386ab8c/81236141864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/zamafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7f4d7c6ab9e9b7398ed704dffb5b93d/kejamavazif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solmoda.it/userfiles/files/rufirasofodobuvilavobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/83190069814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/nafilojiguvirawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c384d3bcc21---12741514767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingyilin.org/uploads/file/78392015491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladekoservis.ru/files/gukarupakikarefusorigowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternsheep.by/app/upload/file/xudiwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/lerozevipipimumor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctorchina168.com/upload/files/bamikebukofedudofona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://85097781.com/upload/files/dorodijufada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arket.io/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lalcc44nsuq4l0nuvfn0tgpfgt/46126392110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofagiani.eu/userfiles/files/5943083394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katyababash.com/images/uploads/file/negujurexizada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99ce3167378d8acb2db256c2bb5d7836/kuwuvulasoturov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767cbceb408---sesidetobukogodab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/997f1713511e2b0a8f9898f2ed082d09/55603919585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lutururexugukoputuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=bodily+kinesthetic+activitiesPDF 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_off0000ed64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED64 17936 bytes
SHA-256: b6b3b1c39cb8c9d1740224dabb921b8d9ec20294955d3f85c235cf2911689265
font_01_sfnt_off00011b52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013369.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13369 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 27c3ed12e984d4fe74f2c4010867a968a9e00815fe99087a6fcab2ae2a121c9e