Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e5f0dea8bde9af9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.3 KB Created: 2021-07-20 00:45:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a68610c67c16351c1d055d43e388467e SHA-1: 13d136b90de82900bf279f4f4c79aacc303ca863 SHA-256: 6e5f0dea8bde9af94fe1fec5cbf409a0f7d6813c661c8b10949cfbfd554105ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, with several heuristics pointing to link farms hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or SEO-spamming campaign. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF format itself can embed JavaScript, and the presence of external links is a common tactic for delivering malicious payloads or redirecting users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52ffc6fa8aa33232bc9c408821a76f95/49330997107.pdf
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/51359270122.pdf
    • https://turismo-galicia.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuvepepekunoxujide.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8d82b5811---zitumoxebomokaxo.pdf
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7c270cd2b472b12cc2ac5349fa52335/97982469504.pdf
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3e5f199d74cde298a2fce7a5fb36540/52774276244.pdf
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/xujanisake.pdf
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28sdgbtoqh7agmo72p295jm1r9/buxerumib.pdf
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17396ac1a80518c6d0348ce6588cbf7a/bewanerol.pdf
    • http://prabashproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52907842630.pdf
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b35ed6365e1---53643154180.pdf
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/10693043024.pdf
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98365111756.pdf
    • http://didula.com/img/file/pexakejer.pdf
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/files/30361729082.pdf
    • http://bkmarine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1625268979.pdf
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/70688033843.pdf
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20df586a707bfaaca4d942aabb79a9e4/gijiwor.pdf
    • https://unique-u.biz/images/uploads/file/donemakesonodivakigazopum.pdf
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf8a2a21b5---lomewakajijiv.pdf
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46ed18e667ec64050a86fc06d53865ef/4135931941.pdf
    • https://workinhotel.com/upload/fckfile/sezezuwego.pdf
    • https://sbufficio.it/file/bezesesazuroxi.pdf
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1621426727.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=high+temperature+on+enzyme+activity
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011b06.bin
13e5cc8dbc46d5c7b94279bfa20ca313ae3bafd2bda6c7ac0bcfe71354b3e773
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B06 19024 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014ca5.bin
43804aba9ae0e50c727da5136ba79c25a4404b5dfeec99ee723716b17a7ef305
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CA5 10936 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000165d0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x165D0 16792 bytes