Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e1e32ffb423338e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.9 KB Created: 2021-07-22 05:33:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a43ffd603d7a5c618634b14769572f9c SHA-1: bdee01db2963281e334819e5a8ddabd401e9aa07 SHA-256: 6e1e32ffb423338e31d2e6fe8ce86e0c99513d9a8ab4119679abe6914d87c5a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a deliberate effort to create a deceptive web presence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d311155ba---93832829515.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a7ece7ef7---75305945407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/80184116691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55sjngf9uvbhvdo11fbvbkbqti/detekudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fca54cdd6---60468695167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3833686cbe---57708118192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20a4c2b68e---manemutudepagipilogemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5aa3e348ff---sixeridemawixelag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/zeguniwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e483c8ca2f7---masulivezifizopepuwedax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/25340308168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ppgehdionkt3snd885nidenpjj/dozopewomilidipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/39465474060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/mowofasot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/xiruxasugib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e6160fe3b21ef5d05eff9d07ce5d6e0/63621142311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/879052575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipublicity.cz/data/file/35312541868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p789mh62e2l3hghuafj35hati7/pewitejem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jakepf4t9phdagcp7qc2rjuebj/10270628567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608430d5a4cc8---soweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c96e0f2b41---gowukuziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=my+son+hates+me+quotesPDF 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_off0001177b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1177B 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 12eed322f32605ea4916c1719b6de991484dcd5439d0f7980468895bf2532456
font_01_sfnt_off00012f33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014745.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14745 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 6d8925fb2abd638e1a10af950350d4a687036b279ed3abef2c8428329f2d893f