Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e72c3595d64d9b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:52:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2e7ef6d4f621e9c546a2a1afa176d89b SHA-1: de40d1ac766f1fa4854bff3556fdaf0282de103b SHA-256: 6e72c3595d64d9b307d46f35e32a13fad90344379dff4329ab92176331d3eb79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm used for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards a tactic of redirecting users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://xn--b1akwe.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/nazaturolejafetom.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081389a50e5b---7637159029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844cf7e71f2---50030365495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/85525431881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rn367ojg214m4pbeue1dkta23n/60508815193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibmovc84sgqmoj0vcaihimb1vb/95139890392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cdcbd3445e---71546295810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/sededaxapopenog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81c06adf30---sigituruludupivogegumeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/tuzudape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbf8c8bc0849eee9548991359604586c/jorawifujedubutomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/58348140198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aanugxqi.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43885088792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jk5cn1ciklk03phqc9et70c7c4/79660804793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e968080229---xumuvimabovamopekode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tneptesoimqq9cm32kd1rf0ikj/taposupudibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levakov132.ru/userfiles/file/84341110344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0517d96464cd5b400e00ba73d7ecb219/85975816873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69e6e8815963c542bbf5f69ff28f0c0a/sixavidakavaxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/pijabesij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a0eb5e5e7---fowonuroduni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.profiemg.cz/upload/ck/files/zilogugufawilusetinew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1be2de5fdd---32168941863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/160856571113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggelrhroo5jsql1tllaeakr9ji/kudedesigititosobeleme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=letter+of+motivation+sample+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_off0000e960.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE960 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 0be3e65afd11601211dc56696dcb13a953c505b182de4c302a113024cd09fd16
font_01_sfnt_off000101de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000119f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119F0 17732 bytes
SHA-256: caa2402f4bb6ab859214b49cfd35daa258f4fd99cf33352eccf9a880adfa33bd