Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e8329a984f58aa2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-10-02 21:36:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 93d411308d610a83cbe76bb266bc98e1 SHA-1: 22a5c6780f9b2b1422327b99ad15ae4b9e539a9d SHA-256: 6e8329a984f58aa247ddab93669fb30b710f7b7e37b4d852045cd8d945cf94cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific pretext, but the overall structure points to a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=abbreviation+quiz+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://santchavarabed.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84378708768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4766d45e4---tizonisivef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-roubenky.cz/UserFiles/File/wepizivebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3rproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65698554021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiendanatacion.com/noticias/files/jujobuzezilujozulod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e44dbaf8ca7e7bb0f262ff12f3bf807/jatebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ca5da6b28d---59361835477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48820027587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namkhoasaigon.vn/web/images/files/fofoxazoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzaidele.com/images/upload/File/gatex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carmelocuritiba.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5979574557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konteshamamotu.com/userfiles/file/71146917329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uktohabbarijamalta.com/files/file/47382866155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mueblesdepladur.es/1/userfiles/file/1857258575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taaltoetsvo.nl/userfiles/file/54888050900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151652db373e---52096938394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lokavuwumulonikisajebodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkydoanhnghiep.org/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/33152805675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28f5a6ccdffa7bca1fd77e417f3ee012/75449613189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyrybupaslaugos.lt/uploads/files/4338343678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smwebtechnology.com/arishayurveda.com/userfiles/file/pifefakopulafilezogedeja.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_off0000acef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACEF 16116 bytes
SHA-256: f07a9d4340d32a079f66b5120a1f46da862039e452efaed1d3a71d6a81fd00bf
font_01_sfnt_off0000d605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD605 10776 bytes
SHA-256: f1f130f3314514607e8fe7eaf353fcc35e83811641c7e0f8036ffa0931ff19b0
font_02_sfnt_off0000eee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1