Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e8d2c3a95f98419…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-27 12:37:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 654cc9e921763a34aa78c589761ba943 SHA-1: 2aac35a20df7e06b3a19f01c0d496a37f98541cf SHA-256: 6e8d2c3a95f9841908e80d821f15f8b441441dd6b25f8d1841f9c0b90cd3ff4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous potentially compromised websites, including those hosted on WordPress upload storage. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest it's designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing sites, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/genutamogej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073081b29638---55749866070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hermangroupcorp.com/clients/3/38/389628ddbd62db2fa1e4299ecdfc1861/File/64130416383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kontiko.com/ktkweb3/images/upload/files/mavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ac41da0c2bdd69a4d0e49f53ea84a77/83583105109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/471f461c1ccc5c94ad8f5e2c312f9c94/31913838079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e1783ba58---zuradofegorogetegofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://70sromans.com/clients/871711/File/vaken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kukc049o3l9np6u7lsuk6q49l0/77214045410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1acf5cd9f9c598dfbcd4485fe9eaa49/zimifinezipavinurupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://p87.hu/files/38983867241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40697de571fad341e8fbcac79ad2cecc/rubuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t7ha9jmua4dinumtfl9uem8gn0/gugaposiwike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mttrasportisrl.it/dati/upload/file/gumiguwumagiximabujosat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stin-verdon.fr/assets/Image//files/1232573723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65686971084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a82b14e8e498d7d55b35fc3fed44f5b2/34273535356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/52021723902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatugigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuxigojamota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c032a8d1913---gelelatirovorukivinowus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u40m178c7vcfogr9dnu6cuhevg/94516393122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/043b78da9c701b769ef50d7c4b78e8c9/42908169282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02a6mrdau3834nmsqa08u0hvq6/38878708721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/103d3dae0f011ae7911bdeca65d3db92/89817148937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+enable+2fa+on+ps4+without+epic+games+accountPDF 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_off0000eeb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C5 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 85128c723b3403997f1b6ccea7bfb3a3851efd705ee3b1b67403d0f133f0781c
font_02_sfnt_off0001342b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1342B 11344 bytes
SHA-256: dec16d1100ab217c330844d225cb316e7355300b55f4f964598919fcd7d32437