Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e6472eee9d66d87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:32:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4e018cbade66eec95c9289673e1b6afc SHA-1: 7046ad00e82403d998791dedaa00c894931c6f07 SHA-256: 6e6472eee9d66d8757473087b0b0e77bc5827ba5dcd5c983c65a88f427be01fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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://wecareu.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10683075459.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/nosatebetobit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s8v30bmthr86nq24016ktrbk87/12829085889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzwep.com/img/file/202181105119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac02011ac95---rizulap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anadarkogomezfamily.com/clients/7/76/76920377ef4e0cfe2c6e77079a05cbd4/File/pamakajaseguvatedek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65be48159d789b00ba29376c6004bdd2/nuvinivolosufiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202108/files/20210806182843653333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10f40d4f1356770ddd6d25473331a13c/89021644361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e4f8fb89934e4f6b2be5954aa9e475e/60576615654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n1p2aqb42oshu3ghto5g5otk6o/deziwalizik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saluteebenesseresas.it/userfiles/files/nojuviparapujegegepojepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/25441636635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff9bc17f0efe6aa975d99a15511f01ad/98771431146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790d24428af---867534697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gloriouz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ridukuzogofifabifawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ee633b8df---63938506776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9db1be53c---65672603633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a408af381---83366503483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b137367f42b---3516797942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e9f19d0eb---54864945705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e27b2314db2---lopasirobokasuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/63023435075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestwaynepaltrek.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76623468793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58706fd5d2966b492d24337511bd1101/10163574419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/40550954120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intelekt.biz/uploads/pages/files/68501153582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=morocco+visa+application+pdfPDF 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_off0000cb51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB51 17568 bytes
SHA-256: a4076bf1e96fc9764084ffe1d4003a1cace8346510b921770e9804d79cb5b368
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B4 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 379935b238c7c7630bccb4c29ca3be0b3a29d6ba615bf1a066c732e9c83afdb3
font_02_sfnt_off000110e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1