Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e4d17db7ea94b22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 17:52:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5696ee7437f9c04abb9559bd8f5aba77 SHA-1: 6237eb7741a3544301fc14d7fa0eb56a7548840e SHA-256: 6e4d17db7ea94b22daa5eb026487b79f03792445b8918a6f6f612b2d4394f80e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what is inferred from the heuristics and URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://paddockj.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/18344852302.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://epponline.com/mentorfinancial/page_images/file/65381096942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/lagesilaril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franceplus.fr/userfiles/file/66582429819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301a408840d---lageves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsprojekt.eu/userfiles/files/58520619850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falegnameriacastiglione.it/userfiles/files/xowetatisuguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/wamonivutakex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/687cd46bd28ba2f743c88e895494fcb4/dakugun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluestandard.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96864776306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136f9f1630f3---84942578974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanticabtl.com/cms_2018_quantica/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/zurikufaruximoxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fan-consultants.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jelutaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamatudarbai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bipivarizati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyo-sanritsu.com/userfiles/file/tibapezekoniwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161337a6dddf19---gukilivegenoxabijadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpsputhuppally.com/userfiles/file/jebenuboxanaxuxozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb95ff8f8faadd3e3bda7d16b7c03cf6/66461905221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutrizionisti.eu/public/thread/risorse/file/34051887990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rallstarawards.us/nbloom/fckuploads/file/bukenexufodirobaparug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/tozoziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majstrissmt.eu/www-data/file/10179725676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.com/upload/files/depuzilafim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=conversion+table+of+weight+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613797fec5afd---duxojug.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_off0000df33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF33 18892 bytes
SHA-256: b4429201711fb49547403eeb2831bab866da0df1815eafa47e25134412a8de02
font_01_sfnt_off00011030.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11030 11100 bytes
SHA-256: cf58f7a65bc604c1a7f7200de2296152d6b1a18655f3e8a72c11cc86ea1280b3
font_02_sfnt_off000129b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1