Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e4704a8324107d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-07-20 06:46:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 9117f453f54f63d29c4c293452044c67 SHA-1: 01bb9d21478b02d4568c2f95c415fadb35d6cab9 SHA-256: 6e4704a8324107d712ca06ced373dd416b53a748251ee210dc728dc678e4890a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to obscure the final destination of the links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous unknown URLs associated with compromised CMS uploads reinforces the suspicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b7ea5208b---75314164364.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mizasaxoluvilexali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxtarget.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lojopevepopira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41560049204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/924b130443803c25471d0543797dd43e/jibatokuvavivikurudavexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/bexudugafadefajozisemodaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b11a718bd4---21434239965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daa9a0de934854ebf735d7dfd73d87a5/46768183007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/5585395024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b946f271e9f612d995e29cc2c4641c09/pulobujuxusomigipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inarchengineering.it/userfiles/files/kuwagesotukesaromesimegeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greer2001.com/clients/e/ea/ea56749d84c1a2d7db36d2c51c833a37/File/vavifojolidino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f115b5d24ece2b424a6ddf8cd0fdf77/78028360390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/11567586292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711c4613a13---82590638718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.retorika-zidar.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/88457787349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g1to9sfnua686onetaiq4n8hqc/reworelopebakibuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef21943f29---97767227061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgunbey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/jeniralarorasululibipeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce1ce982e7bfaaa37d98818dc499ed61/44190480501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce90b6ffa0---19431569983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hon-ro.hu/userfiles/files/35734138287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/1021538589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gawwaclsc.com/app/webroot/upload/files/judag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enricobarraco.com/files/10216135063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remproekt-m.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51002482149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+delete+a+friend+in+discordPDF 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_off00010e5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E5A 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 5f323250a6c89d7f7a47923685a1227450967992997243610f15227ab3680ca1
font_01_sfnt_off00012680.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12680 17716 bytes
SHA-256: 1df48858bfd7dac1fddced971bd37112b8241b670db8922812475ccc915af770
font_02_sfnt_off00015469.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15469 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1