Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e15287d66fc830a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:18:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 763c3b6827f573f32ccb43f69b491258 SHA-1: ed0f72d8f00d16939c7184d89a8e5011257e60fc SHA-256: 6e15287d66fc830a7b04fc815cddfa26556b8ca36e740eb02e520fda6f81d0f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, 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 multiple external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 http://pribatu.lamilagrosaimport.com/images/files/49947058941.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/xugotugakosefesimibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778125a7fdc---neliporajijajetemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenfountains.com/uplds/file/83023985224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2olif7fvtf5f6ar2ekh1hk6ulf/dugejosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093cdc889cdb---93540522574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40bcda5932540928df471b80be56789b/89752255688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97mp2bqu8b6kgusl2b0pvvn27j/82458971866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a2ff6a60b---zeguneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cor5rg422h52l2ci6plc340glp/lopilojabedana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sibirprokat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sewig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop//contents/32375940403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas2.com/contents//files/kekidipotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782d3c6a54b---81178503942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f04ea0242e---zotokiraxuvidatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/44094721797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1tlstar.com/storage/uploads/files/34940370260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.com/E/file/sopalatevefogeruvodeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b462bb2c59c---danezite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c04074534f5---44302596436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebottombillion.org/business_school/uploads/file/7528513384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/86517911320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gandolfiarchitetti.com/userfiles/files/66370445694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milosislandrooms.gr/userfiles/file/tabidizovem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.info/contents//files/8159100750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huemin.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/76336632177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vydavatelstvoklett.sk/userfiles/file/pizepedozukixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=download+risalah+sidang+bpupki+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_off0000d526.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD526 17780 bytes
SHA-256: 2e5aa72dae19f56c220a391d2c24fc91f53748e3fba4bab1e0dc4f4e5dba3fb5
font_01_sfnt_off00010368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10368 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B7F 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 9a8f18f383bf22e169392bc4d5b6c4425e188e5d86715fd7f9198cef2c9537cc