Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e4b4fd1279fb762…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:03:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2c2be3dc5dd7608bca45bb2c8588d13b SHA-1: 2d7ba7a4274df76c45d2bcc11429c96194fab4ab SHA-256: 6e4b4fd1279fb762dc571d27c2f4306d150456981cbafc8bbbc4259562779625
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host further PDF files. This suggests 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.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99en8f268o7k99s93uecpro7kh/94206155178.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/1624959456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rtpff3vnk5dobfntbb4i21c8h2/23663137679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e5291e37e0---suniwalodav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmtours.co/aym_image/files/34976310154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.doctor-carpet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aib1jf0iesad1m1ge8gfmkg2i4/bebutedinavorimumanogoxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slhospital.com/upload/fckeditor/file/bofujupeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/31059427625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb6ab60b528---90772143359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67154f01177970565a10d9e03735b003/xusefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607193dece686---pakofawukaxisaxepusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba6f9af4dd9e42b90db48bf1b586f43f/vuxekamazubokuvudewise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burragebrothers.org/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/rupugenega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fong-cai.com/upload/files/32044460377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611dc18576f20---46012129527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/45489465354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/76568409367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7b3d20400---wadabewodudot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/1625742041967452273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10gccm1r0gs5pqepci97vrg8p6/54988807681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6e5416c13c---metazozosonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ekoforte.com/upload/file/xenavala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac9ec1ead77be831f4fc8f82b94124c8/gaxaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=words+to+all+i+ask+of+youPDF 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_off0000bf11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF11 10408 bytes
SHA-256: c31072b5acabd76244c2b0cd9e622efb336fafc5dffa5eb036d536966dcb6907
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eedb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEDB 16308 bytes
SHA-256: d08c2e6686b709b0d09b9b0a2a7ff367c88d38f085284c7db5921ca34ef3160c