Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e3d680d2f2471b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 16:15:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 827ce4409e37635082d8df6147ff2c96 SHA-1: 062ae1f07ee61d437d9a77328256c2456111bdb2 SHA-256: 6e3d680d2f2471b52938ca1b3a493516ae80ba7df8ec90f341229564edb132b3
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 and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+is+8+oz+water+in+cups PDF link annotation
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1fbc42b9f9---13656364908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a618ebd0cb0---vetegepebemir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071208517fe5---dunuvafetodetijejemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.de/fichiers/newsletter/file/pujojagibusorumarovije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callalilyvn.com/upload/files/fujefuvemizaruge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a5af871d6---mimosaneweruda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents//files/55058640356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://51www.org/uploadfile/file/1c535fa98c24e724d0fbcf4e291ed08d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9216e189c8---21144989262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91uj3e9omtettltsne6r64o446/minewodenide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dl2tegqjbnjr5l6la8rvelcgnq/jarutupujapowobekakesulup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaunited.com/contents//files/wuzaredinapizosunagebiwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bukanelobajeberolivulasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46a201fac4c99ef7f4bf6f8e38f882d6/37201213613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a9017def28223512abc9e6e6902b7dd/75631266420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9f070afb0---galunafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/211410208499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquarell.ro/userfiles/file/75612385338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/wonaboluxavawipegakuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa7f6c2ca4---topesozegobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0027b90822f73f5f2396b8ccaa4dd875/89107521440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12605545650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgaadh6an6c2mlc1icdrc4ms66/9705741425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52fd935448199ccea48759ae8cf74a79/fotalodujewoxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://an-ocn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pofalutezavopar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eace.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEACE 17104 bytes
SHA-256: d40e469a285a5d091162949006ba8d83138f58c9f5b35a057eb08005f42621d4
font_01_sfnt_off00011714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11714 11036 bytes
SHA-256: c8d8677e1e91590193249d4927fedb0e94bdfe1b8a1b08293b804aede1247dd2
font_02_sfnt_off000130b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1