Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e2db1ce90939d5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-08-22 07:25:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2a022eaf36f7bb73e9180982ca37c750 SHA-1: a2e84a4bebbc687c42c447435ce66a79ff6590cc SHA-256: 6e2db1ce90939d5c1a616e1cfba7583421d2b7d8a62e223db3581b4067e25ffd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to external, potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10da71a5b1da503fdda948339df4ffde/62987553426.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/kiloxelopumoduveped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/remolatewokoxojunoniwezuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe7d436b77---82313472868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-13/20210813020918252108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b593ac142e1dd4b2064640c9032c059/30283983677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b2044af12---xalubogifopefox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af263781ba---xifizomimobax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namratalakhotia.com/userfiles/files/zozep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eotp.info/sites/default/files/fck/file/gagijefotibolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/5208480086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/29120959975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s8o9j2ju16ojrbjneq1toqhner/63913302321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///somilavijokewopabotif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a61115ffc286ce5fcb9fa763b4f132dd/92841980261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/sojudegaloweleketipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfcu4vgu0hl9b46kem8t4g9cnc/fixuvurag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610701cab6011---55410559758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobaliva.eu/userfiles/files/xeriminatumupawugakifuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerdynamic.com/clients/3/3d/3d9dba0a3645e5854abf1db7654b9c86/File/lowawapofabiloxigejelike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/36458382355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ab1a9a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/12011735800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/59358467156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=quantifiers+worksheet+2+with+answersPDF 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_off0000cf2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e745.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE745 10720 bytes
SHA-256: defda8a647985ea32b92141a99993607ae6d68b6ff86c24142d135bfd1990e91
font_02_sfnt_off00010013.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10013 16768 bytes
SHA-256: def4145f9046139a1e295f3b6048446505a1bbb2759eba591561f91868c74e7a