Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e4adc88af159e01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-26 00:58:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: d9294f4f3b466f73a7f8ff539a9ef5d2 SHA-1: 01057a6ef36281375df3844a5599607bd71480ca SHA-256: 6e4adc88af159e012fc2f14b3b69039ff8cef2ab47ce4d6e5f46728f0531bc8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary attack pattern involves tricking users into downloading or interacting with malicious content via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://tongdaidoanhnghiep.com/app/webroot/upload/files/gufajidoledu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/94253260344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/612b8deeb6f7d3b817b8faf854ebfebe/riwudulalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseafoodmart.com/uploads/files/parisenijirivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danguykhoidoanhnghiephp.vn/Upload/files/68989681960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11210e0e74---27169714722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdc190da877---risepojeritefinisubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9262895.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33758141462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/tevowuporutinafidezur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abbe65173cec5f970eaac20ea748bd18/fopinewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekon.net/userfiles/file/84483670649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1191712189---karazozobugipurulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uopdhol7lel5k1uhfpkb6abblj/21702355763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ndc5onhegmlu7ihv5kb6j7in6p/batevotub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087584629808---visigulareg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3hlvbs8064hfmcbrknanrd1c60/5726264736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3a0e9f5d7---29815181516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/koikn58gap31j35j2f167kd4ui/3175723180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a685eaecd2b---88431221661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926bc15a4ff---4216749170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce4f02e416---555791074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/29081600774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/kefivifirawudawitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/65795132413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/malolofedilolulap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unserbiokorb.ch/userfiles/file/ramoseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7878364b94db82c4379d62758297103/verufuvozima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703eb838788---37441404582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=atividades+sobre+per%C3%ADodo+simples+e+composto+8o+ano+com+gabaritoPDF 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_off0000f5de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5DE 11312 bytes
SHA-256: 1f84b687328ebffe3ae7cacca8fe1542a44a8befced8c56a6336b8006ad8d3b0
font_01_sfnt_off00011003.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11003 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12815 18852 bytes
SHA-256: bc9d62cdbd40fac07999e1f9f3d81d51143fe0880e769b8d75b2cc1c2060528e