Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e49ef803cd1c886…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:18:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 83a848ef4d836e4e5c056bda2bbdd909 SHA-1: 9407165db65a728dfb0ac067c615bfdae83c5cd3 SHA-256: 6e49ef803cd1c886b3647fdee9e2ba0cde6bf7ee57bf81ee745379c2996132ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The file's structure as a link farm suggests it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=precalculus+polynomial+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://cravaluos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65341438816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612cd034c5da0---88149732434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehnicgaz.eu/files/file/78528665480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyacer-ecp.com/userfiles/files/20210907_043025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a457f330c05---22735219429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735a4e8025e---8362679997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93baa1ea50112d9efabbdd9ed2bf7371/64930522233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2369c4640345bd646c57f824625e3bd0/90026872256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3d07e140a---kujibojekolulimaziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75300ec5864825548a15bc70c6061a80/bikipapimezepege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a641a3ee6e2---16462738602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springhs1988.com/clients/a/a7/a70db2535ed58991dd9724faf9b165d0/File/pafeluvusitoxilaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/duxumenumev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baobianhkhang.com/upload/files/60283344666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5lirureqb6smg6e570qad4u85/36190210530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94fluma1oqe2isght0vr7vrau7/gevurizejexuvipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7665346fa---22640125415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llibreriaha.com/img/events/file/labaferejilofejesadesur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.me/userfiles/files/1863758933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/xusawelakometewiteferajew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/naxarovemokozawa.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_off0000c0c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0C3 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 4e3e811ad08564ddf76fde08f62f90634677547135101583d97bc0811867e7be
font_01_sfnt_off0000da4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA4D 17456 bytes
SHA-256: ec712e8c989d8dbf7c6f0f4ff5d9c763508f7880b3bba5f95314ce858dc93e7d
font_02_sfnt_off000106f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1