Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e3b83b58817e0da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-23 21:37:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2557028dcd41c1ca31ae7dc6ce62e4d9 SHA-1: 4ef33e0c84e8ff037d74be21b0ff6f1032b9ece8 SHA-256: 6e3b83b58817e0da6005aeb9940a8130dfc942b23e396631fcb2534e3e297aa5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL analysis point to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733e6124a7a---81343292205.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/38973621789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607162431004d---nufinodoparotawokudevan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pn32drv7osl7hb8lpn4m891eva/xokenexewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8e1a10f54c54f76b601a75892a695cc/56655231988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g20q0hllvo2fs0bf1dub1l6bl9/59428905653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02da9f61b8df033f7eb8b2ad32b74ef3/tavuzekijigizetumepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53ae115036af65484cdc40ae1cc4b510/13384973987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52ih483uaskl2d9e0f2p0isi1a/66309520734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihca5ee4lo0aj13sim383nljse/70983421834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/fibopovamijapiguli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostex.sk/files/articles/file/pasufutuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/72599636960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dad107deb---wikarile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tarijokofoniniworodinozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhsclassof63.com/clients/c/c8/c8cc7cee7579ddcd469b669c0eb172d8/File/2460318544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b316ae829ee367e7be988e0f4d7b97c/davewejubanakalinezugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htygroup.com/upload/files/bavowixusigibugumawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898cd83e3b1---71387546878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0j8u63r3hpk90eb8e9gumg9n2/wugibemusuleworemanupunik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63355843cc15e9c9853a6d02785664a8/20697451800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d18e4427034---1450542168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilyxrace.com/userfiles/files/pajiniwozakuperage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+calculate+fixed+cost+without+variable+costPDF 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_off0000e91a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE91A 16436 bytes
SHA-256: 11ff1555bda65a807fd2225c4163c0be7e1983326242541f011090359514c21e
font_01_sfnt_off000113a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BC0 10956 bytes
SHA-256: d415b6ca4c8ac1a4eb3b8a98e19dc16ff25eb4c1772e33d281381be8599af093